Unwanted RPM dependencies

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 03:37 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> We could get rid of a few packages on the OLPC in a cleaner
> way if we could loosen dependencies a little.
> 
> Some random things I noticed:
> 
>  - cracklib has a hard dependency on pam.  Is there a way
>    we could make it optional?
You mean the other way around - pam has a hard dependency on cracklib.
The dependency could be removed but cracklib would be brought in anyway
- throug the automatic dependency on libcrack.so. This library (and
cracklib-dicts) is required by pam_cracklib module and the only solution
would be to make pam_cracklib a subpackage of the main pam package.
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Tomas Mraz
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