Greg,

The libnss* files are used by libspfs, not just xget.  They are used to
authenticate the user and verify that the user can access the filesystem
and/or files.  I have created a runtime option that will disable the
permission changing, but that will not prevent the libnss libraries from
being loaded.

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 23:43 -0700, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Well,... rather a feature un-request.
> 
> Recently support for maintaining permissions and ownership were added
> to xget. This feature added requirements for getpwent() and getgrent()
> which added more dynamic requirements on the host operating system
> (e.g. libnss_files.so.2 when building against glibc).
> 
> I have already added proper support into the Perceus initramfs, but
> the long term fix I think would be to have a compile option to disable
> certain features not needed for OS bootstrapping and keep things as
> light as can be.
> 
> Thanks guys, and great work!
> 
> Greg
> 
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