At 18:57 Uhr +0100 20.05.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 03:56 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
>>So do we need a system-passwd package, which "Provides: passwd", and which
>>simply tells that user that they better have those users/groups installed
>>if they are going to install the appropriate fink pkgs?
>
>Well no, what we really need is to re-think the way passwd is done 
>and only add users when the user actually installs the package, 
>prompt them to remove them if they remove the package, checks to see 
>if user IDs are already in use, etc.

What remains to mention is that the user *IDs* must be fixed if I am 
mistaken. This makes a system-passwd package basically useless. It 
doesn't help us if there is a mysql user if it hasn't the proper ID - 
that is it will work well for self-built packages but not for the 
bindist.


>Any volunteers? :-)

*cough* Vol... what is that? :-)


Max
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