Since Fedora is not aimed at enterpise/business ..

[Bill Nottingham]

Rik van Riel (riel at redhat.com) said: 
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Seriously, using things like kerberos and LDAP allow an OS to
> > be used by a much greater potential pool of users than would
> > be enabled by not including them.
> 
> I wonder what would be required to have mechanisms like
> NIS and LDAP as optional plugins, instead of required
> dependencies ...

NIS is just a NSS module in glibc, it's not huge, and doesn't
have extra libraries.

LDAP has a nss/pam module package (nss_ldap); its requires
are just glibc and the openldap libraries.

As for the other requirements on openldap libraries, that's
just for things that use LDAP for things you can't get via NSS.

Bill