non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 7 15:27:43 UTC 2006


Mike McGrath wrote:

>>http://centos.karan.org/ has  extras packages built for centos  so there is no 
>>reason  why you cant use fedora-usermgmt  and have it work :)

> Except only 26 packages in FE use it. 

Maybe because they're the only ones creating local users?

>0 packages in core use it AFAIK. 

Core packages can't depend-on/use Extras bits.

> We're re-inventing the wheel and I just don't get why.

It's been explained several times already (in this thread) why 
fedora-usermgmt exists.

-- Rex




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