On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Angel Tsankov <[email protected]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: >> Basically what you suggest is possible, but IMO (as a long time >> pkg-user user) it does not provide me any extra usability to >> compensate for the added complexity. The key for me is automation. >> > I like the 'package users' approach but I think it misses the version > information -- I find this information useful. > My idea is to make 'package users' a little bit information at the expense > of some more (but not too much IMO) "book keeping". What exactly do you > find difficult to automate? >
The version info is as easy as adding a "echo $VERSION > ~$PKG/.version" in the script. What is the advantage of having that info in the username since only one version of a package can be installed at a time? Also having strange characters in the username means that the username may not fit in the format expected by shadow. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[email protected] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
