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 -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel