remove fedora-usermgmt?

[Axel Thimm]

> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:00:41 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > This package provides wrappers around useradd, userdel, groupadd and
> > groupdel to allow predictable but configurable uids/gids.
> 
> The fallback, e.g. the default operation, be it either useradd -r or
> something I don't understand yet, certainly is not predictable. I
> guess that less than 1 permille of Fedora users even know that there
> is such a system to configure, and even less do configure it, so we
> can really assume that all packages using this method don't really
> need predictable uid/gids ...

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:34:35PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> For the different behaviour you would first need to enable fedora-usermgmt
> via the alternatives system.

Which rather proves that it is useless. You either have the default
unpredictable behaviour, or you need to configure global resources *per
host* or *per site*.

The default behaviour which accounts for 99.99% of all users is that
people don't even know there is something to configure. And I probably
made a very conservative guess.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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