Re: Questions regarding the base system
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
bruce>> Could the installation at least just ask for it? A lot of systems I install
bruce>> are going to run NIS, and don't need local users. I have to remove that
bruce>> user by hand every time which is a bit annoying
bruce>
bruce>It would be fine for it to ask if root/postmaster mail should be sent to
bruce>a "remote" address rather than a local user, but can it deliver the mail
bruce>there before any other packages are installed? I don't think so. The
bruce>alternative is to send it into a black hole, which I'm not so happy with.
How about delaying all mail until the mail package is installed and a user
created? There is no point in sending e-mail on a minimal system and so
there is really no reason for a user to exist and thus for adduser in the
base system. dpkg-ftp could also be removed from the base together with
perl if there would be some script that installs a predefined sequence of
packages via dpkg to generate the full current base from a minimal base.
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