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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