non fedora-usermgmt user creation
Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Wed Mar 22 13:03:53 UTC 2006
bugs.michael at gmx.net said:
> This is even less predictable at installation-time. For resolving virtual
> dependencies currently "shortest package name wins". While useradd from
> shadow-utils and fedora-usermgmt are equivalent if not customised, they are
> different when customised, and beyond that there's much more inside the
> shadow-utils package.
Ok, now I see what you mean. (except that there's no reason there'd be less
in fedora-usermgmt than shadow-utils, if fedora-usermgmt is a replacement it
needs to copy all of it...)
> You try to hide the dependency, which moves the missing
> "Requires: fedora-usermgmt" into nowhere, so admin must take care even more
> than before.
No, I try to have something consistent. So far, we have:
- Core that uses useradd
- part of Extras that uses useradd
- part of Extras that uses fedora-usermgmt
So, even if all of Extras is forcefully converted to fedora-usermgmt, we'll
still have Core packages not obeying its setup.
My scheme would allow to have some harmony all-over. Maybe it's too brutal.
Maybe some trick like is done for sendmail and lp would be ok. But that also
requires the Core part to cooperate...
Christian
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