On Sunday, July 24, 2016 5:15:51 PM CDT Florian Weimer wrote: > To implement some Fedora 25 changes (split NSS (Name Service Switch) > subpackages, libcrypt without NSS (Mozilla Network Security Services) > library depdencies), I added additional subpackages to the glibc > packages, namely: > > - libcrypt > - libcrypt-nss > - nss_db > - nss_hesiod > - nss_nis > > The expectation is that libgcrypt-nss is installed by default, and > system administrators may opt to install libcrypt (with the internal > algorithm implementations instead). libcrypt and libcrypt-nss both > provide the soname-based RPM dependencies required by applications which > need password hashing. > > In contrast, nss_db, nss_hesiod, nss_nis are expected to be installed by > system administrators who need the specific functionality. They are not > installed by default. (nss_files and nss_dns remain part of the main > glibc package because their use is pretty much required by all > installations.) > > The background for these changes is twofold: We want to reduce minimal > image size (also the gains a very small), and we want to pave the road > towards alternative implementations (based on OpenSSL for libcrypt, and > based on libtirpc for nss_nis). > > Thanks, > Florian Bodhi has zero support for Reccomends and Suggests, we can not push out updates with them. The use of Rich dependencies is not allowed. See [1] for more details Dennis [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/Q5LMMPVEORM76IOPGKYS4XJ6VZ2WLAAX/? sort=date -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
