Re: Another solution (was Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...)

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

> Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > To leave the old NSS libraries lying around, which I believe is the
> > core of your suggestion, would require fundamentally changing the
> > packaging system as the removal of old files is intrinsic to its
> > operation.
> 
> A trivial solution would be to open all the NSS modules at load time.

That would

1: be slow,
2: defeat a major point of NSS.