On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:37:31 +0100, Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > Transfer this scenario from Core ("sendmail" package) to Core ("shadow-utils" > > package) plus an Extras package, which the admin must configure at > > install-time to adjust its install-time behaviour (i.e. choose the base uid) > > for the remaining packages to be installed. Do you see the problem? > > Not really. Admin who wants fedora-usermgmt functionality does: > 1. Install minimal system > 2. Install fedora-usermgmt and configure it > 3. Install rest of the packages Tiresome, since it triples the number of steps needed to install a system. > I fail to see what you gain with those Extras packages directly Requiring > fedora-usermgmt. Admin who wants to configure it still will have to follow > the 1,2,3 steps as above. No. The 'setup(fedora-usermgmt)' virtual capability in the dependency chain can be used to pull in a customised configuration early enough. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list