bugs.michael@xxxxxxx said: > Without overriding shadow-utils from the outside, you cannot replace it or > change its behaviour. Without modifying the dependency chain, you cannot > influence installation-order either. Hence there's no way to insert a > configuration package into the depchain. Ok. > Technically, packages which run "useradd" require /usr/sbin/useradd in Fedora > space. They don't require an arbitrary "useradd" in $PATH. They don't require > a package with the name "shadow-utils". And no other package (not in Core and > not in Extras either) must replace or otherwise conflict with /usr/sbin/ > useradd unless it is given a different file name. But something similar is done for e.g. /usr/sbin/sendmail , which is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mta , which offers a way to replace the original sendmail with a customized one > Moving the system utility > in order to replace it with a modified utility (with different behaviour) > opens a can of worms. Yes, but that's not what I (tried to) propose. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
