Fedora User Management (revisited)

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Mar 6 20:27:54 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:15 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> 
>   The fact is fedora user management is proprietary.  No one else uses 
> it, and there's a reason for that.  It's not shiny, it's not new, it's a 
> hacked together script that the community is very split on.  It only 
> solves a few rare use cases and it's causing real problems.  I'm not 
> going to beat around the bush about it, if it can't be done 
> transparently it shouldn't be done.  EPEL or not, there's many out there 
> that don't want it which is why I suggested a vote.

You should have lead with this in your initial email.  Calling for a
vote (which arguably sounded like a call for a vote about EPEL and not
Fedora+EPEL) without something like the above is fairly ambiguous.

That being said, rock on.

josh




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