rename fedora-usermgmt?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 01:47:41 UTC 2007


On 3/4/07, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Once upon a time Sunday 04 March 2007, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >
> >> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I see fedora-usermgmt has been made available for EPEL. That is
> >>> probably going to cause some confusion. Maybe rename it into
> >>> system-usermgmt or something more distribution neutral. The other
> >>> packages except for fedora-ds-base are all indeed specific to Fedora.
> >>>
> >>> Rahul
> >>>
> >> Why don't we just remove it?
> >>
> > Mike, i know you hate it :) but alot of packages use it.
> >
>
> More packages don't use it and no packages in RHEL use it.  I'll stop
> now, I don't want to be "that guy" :-D
>

Can I be that guy. Personally I think F-U-M has caused me more
problems moving apps over into an enterprise environment. Trying to
get packages installed before LDAP is up etc and having to deal with
oh look clamav is now the same as Johnny the Hacker.


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