Philip Hands wrote:
ppp is needed for doing an install from the internet via a dialup link. PAM
is not needed until you want people to log into the system, so libpam is a
waste of space on the install disks.
The only advantage I can see is a couple of kilobytes of space on the
Philip Hands wrote:
ppp is needed for doing an install from the internet via a dialup link.
PAM is not needed until you want people to log into the system, so libpam
is a waste of space on the install disks.
The only advantage I can see is a couple of kilobytes of space on the
Philip Hands wrote:
I thought that, until I noticed that libpam depends upon libpam-util, which
depends upon libpwdb0, which together come to about 180k compressed.
I think you should file a bug report against libpam so it doesn't depend on
libpam-util. I don't see why a library package
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought that, until I noticed that libpam depends upon
libpam-util, which depends upon libpwdb0, which together come to
about 180k compressed.
I think you should file a bug report against libpam so it doesn't
depend on libpam-util. I don't see why
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
o By linking ppp with pam you are dragging libpam0g, libpam0g-util and
libpwdb0g into base.
This is fine, *as long as* it's been discussed and agreed first, I
don't like 3 shared library packages being silently dragged into
base. If we're going
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Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ppp is needed for doing an install from the internet via a dialup
link. PAM is not needed until you want people to log into the
system, so libpam is a waste of space on the install disks.
I'm not certain it's worth the
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