Re: non fedora-usermgmt user creation

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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.

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