On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:27:10PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 08-02-2016 00:40, William Harrington escreveu: > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 02:17:25 +0000 > > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to build libpwquality, for whichever part of kde5 now > >> requires it. I noted that we have PAM and Cracklib as > >> "Recommended". > > > > Fedora has a patch which is supposed to make it optional, as far as I can > > tell. > > > > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7QJQZCJYNFTX3BQ2UILGQQUBIOTJXAAL/ > > > > Could make it required or optional with the patch if it is valid. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > William Harrington > > > > My preference is recommended, if possible. But agree with Ken's decision > if he still wishes to promote to required > My rational is that Recommended either means
(i.) The package can build without this, and without extra configure switches, but the recommended package provides useful extra functionality (is that a word ?) or (ii.) The package can be built without this, but you need to supply extra configure switches. This package, as shipped, matches neither option. I am reluctant to include a patch in the book just so that people can detune what upstream shipped. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
