non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:26:16 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> How did the administrator enable fedora-usermgmt without installing it 
>> first?
> 
> For instance, via any package in the transaction which provides the
> 'setup(fedora-usermgmt)' virtual capability.

Right, so that would be a custom package that provided this virtual and 
actually contained the configuration information specifying the UID/GID 
range to use.

However, given that fedora-usermgmt-setup in Extras provides this 
virtual, any admin relying on the virtual to pull in the required 
dependency as part of one big transaction would be relying on yum to 
choose the right package (the custom one from the local repo rather than 
fedora-usermgmt-setup from Extras), which doesn't sound like a very sane 
thing to do. Whilst yum's behaviour is currently to pick the package 
with the shortest name, that might change someday, mightn't it?

To be certain, a careful admin would install the custom package first so 
that yum didn't get a chance to make the wrong decision. Which negates 
the argument for having the Requires(pre), doesn't it?

Paul.