At 2002/2/25 20:58-0500 Matt Wilson writes: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:46:03PM +1100, Christopher Yeoh wrote: > > > > Thats correct. At the 2001 NY LSB Workgroup meeting it was agreed that > > where there was a conflict between a command implemented by util-linux > > and shadow-utils the shadow-utils version would be used. > > I must have been in the packaging group meeting at the time. Was > there any rationale given for this decision?
We did spend some time discussing it and the decision has been mentioned on this and/or lsb-spec list a few times since then, but to be honest I don't remember the details. Maybe someone else who was there can remember better than me. >It seems like linux distributions are fairly evenly split between the >two implementation, so there is no clear best practice. As you've discovered to take the common subset of functionality between the two versions of sets of commands (and its not limited to passwd and chfn) its necessary to both remove a number of options and add extra commands to the specifications. I'd consider this to be a significant change to the specification and not just a fix of something obviously wrong. Regards, Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group Canberra, Australia
