Re: NIS+ support in glibc/libc6

[Ben Gertzfield <che@imsa.edu>]

>>>>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@news.cistron.nl> writes:

    Miquel> Okay, so I should probably NOT use the nistools package
    Miquel> from Thorsten Kukuk.  Come to think of it I should
    Miquel> probably nag him to seperate his nisttools package into
    Miquel> nistools and nisplustools. Then we could keep NIS and NIS+
    Miquel> completely seperate, right?

That would probably be a Good Thing, yes. :)

    Ben> I'd like to test it out -- is Helmut planning to release a
    Ben> lib6 with the DES encryption enabled?

    Miquel> Only if it's in non-US. It can never be a part of the
    Miquel> official Debian. Maybe it's possible to put the DES
    Miquel> encryption part in a seperate shared library?

I'd think it should be possible to generate two versions -- one with,
one without, quite simply. It's just a different argument to
./configure.. 

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