non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:38:54 +0100, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:

> 
> (ahem...  I kinda promised myself I'd stop feeding this thread...  sigh)
> 
> bugs.michael at gmx.net said:
> > If you don't make it a requirement, it becomes unreliable at installation
> > time, since it may or may not be available prior to a package which would use
> > it in its scriptlets.
> 
> I probably don't understand what you mean here.
> 
> If fedora-usermgmt is a complete replacement of useradd, it will of course be 
> named useradd and the package doesn't even need to know it exists.  The 
> package must only require something called useradd, same as in Core.
> 
> The *manager* installing the package needs to know if he wants fedora-usermgmt 
> functionality on the system, and in this case install it and configure it 
> properly before installing further packages.
> 
> But once it's installed, new packages being installed shouldn't be able to 
> tell the difference.  Only the manager.
> 
> Or what did I miss?

A link in the dependency chain. A way to pull in automatically a package
which (assuming we stick to the current mechanism implemented by Enrico)
provides the 'setup(fedora-usermgmt)' capability and hence the defaults
chosen by the admin.