Re: Experimental base-passwd redesign
Hi,
>>"Jean" == Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> writes:
Jean> On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Erik Andersen wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 06, 1997 at 06:03:05PM -0600, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
>> update-passwd is a C program, making the base-passwd package no
>> longer architecture-independent. Another option would be to
>> separate update-passwd into its own package, leave only the
>> {passwd,group}.master files in base-passwd, and have the
>> base-passwd postinst only call update-passwd if it sees it
>> installed. The problem with that is it creates package bloat (two
>> packages instead of one) and may just not be worth it.
>>
>> Could your update-passwd program be easy written in perl? That
>> would make it architecture independent, and the base Debian system
>> already depends on perl. Just a thought (i.e. not a request).
Jean> Please don't. I find it disturbing that I have to install such
Jean> a large package as perl to get even a minimal Debian system up.
Jean> With a little pruning, I was able to eliminate all packages
Jean> depending on perl except for dpkg-ftp. Hopefully Diety will
Jean> eliminate this dependency.
Quite. So the package should use only those bits of perl that
reside on the base system already (please look at the policy lists
for details). The /usr/bin/perl interpreter is reasonably small, and
should soon be in essential package perl-base (if you think I am
wrong, please reply on the debian-policy list).
manoj
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