[Fedora-packaging] Second user/group handling draft

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri May 11 17:58:35 UTC 2007


Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta at iki.fi) said: 
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007, I wrote:
> 
> > The first draft about user and group handling (creation etc) is ready for
> > discussion: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsersAndGroups
> 
> As noted in this week's FPC meeting minutes, the draft is probably going to be 
> voted on next week.  A more fleshed out and cleaned up version which also 
> takes into account some findings in the FPC meeting as well as other feedback 
> on -maintainers is now online.  Comments still welcome.

Requiring shadow-utils as opposed to /usr/sbin/{user,group}add cuts down
on a layer of indirection when resolving deps.

Bill




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