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Re: In defense of Suidmanager



Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:

> Same with suidmanager in case you are using debmake. You can of course
> bypass suidmanager and still do it the old way. Package maintainers dont
> have to do anything different if they dont want to use suidmanager.

I'm opposed to having this program forced on everyone by a small
number of package maintainers.

No package should depend on suidmanager.  It's unnecessary, the design
is very specific to one problem (a configuration database should be
used to solve this *and* other problems), etc.

Dan
 
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