On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 07:44:42PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 08:45:44AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > I could have gotten that much from the description line. :) What I was > > trying to get at is, "is that it?" Because if the only advantage secure-su > > has is that it restricts who can use it, how is installing gnu-su > > parallel to secure-su going to accomplish anything but nullifying > > secure-su's only advantage? > > You're right of course. Argh! Never really thought about it. > > So what do we do? I think we should move gnu-su out of fileutils into its > own package and make the two su packages conflict with each other. Which still means that secure-su can not be installed on a debian system, as findutils, which is 'Essential: yes' requires gnu-su... So, where does this leave us? Zephaniah E, Hull.. > > Which package need gnu-su features btw? > > Michael > -- > Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! > Senior-Consultant | business: Michael.Meskes@mummert.de | Go Rhein Fire! > Mummert+Partner | private: Michael.Meskes@usa.net | Use Debian > Unternehmensberatung AG | Michael.Meskes@gmx.net | GNU/Linux! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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