Hi, Happy New Year to the followers of this list.
I'm testing a new version of jhalfs for BLFS, and I've found that nothing depends on shadow... This prompted me to investigate dependencies involving shadow, cracklib, and Linux-PAM. Here are some oddities I've found: 1) in the required dependencies for shadow, we have "Linux-PAM or cracklib". Obviously none of those are required, since shadow can be built without them. I suggest moving them to "recommended". 2) shadow is not mentioned as a dependency of Linux-PAM, but it is said that shadow should be reinstalled after installing Linux-PAM. Actually, Linux-PAM is pretty useless without recompiling shadow. I suggest moving shadow to "required runtime" (with appropriate wording). Same for systemd in the systemd book. 3) shadow is not mentioned as a dependency of cracklib, but it is said that shadow must be reinstalled after installing cracklib. I suggest moving shadow to "required runtime" (with appropriate wording) for cracklib. Regards Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
