29th May 2017, 2:53
Thanks. I removed most but not all of those samba-affiliated packages. The ones i had to leave, & why, are as follows (i must say, i find it pretty weird that removing an incidental ancillary pgm like samba, or in this case some of its related packages, would actually force removal of entirely unrelated major pgms like for instance KMyMoney, kdesudo, k3b, kde-runtime etc!!]: