On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 03:24:59PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> > If we ignore the examples, we really only have "auth-pam" and "down-root" >> > in the main distribution today, and those are useful in many cases - so >> > I'd go for "always build and install them". >> >> And always have pam dependency for this example? > > FreeBSD, NetBSD, all Linuxes and Solaris have PAM anyway. > > So make this "if pam libraries + headers are detected, install auth-pam, > otherwise, not".
We already discussed the automatic detection and integrity failure as result. > >> These plugins should be optional I don't see any value in enforcing >> them and their dependencies. > > If these plugins are useful for a large number of users, there is no > point in not installing them by default. They are not. Exactly because the are not useful, I am for the split. Anyway, if you follow the apache example there is explicit enable/disable to each. BTW: Packager of what platform are you? Alon.
