On Wed, Sep 03, 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > For example, libnssmdns mangles /etc/nsswitch.conf to add its entries: > > this sounds equally intrusive to me. > I for one don't consider that high praise, I'm not happy with packages > taking it upon themselves to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf. :) By my reading, > that's a violation of Debian Policy ¶ 10.7.4, but one that's been quite low > on my list of bugs to file so long as PAM remained in disarray.
For the record, I agree the nsswitch.conf mangling is intrusive and I would also like to move to wrapper scripts to manage its contents. -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
