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Josselin:
Exactly the same problem will exist, I believe with the
other kerberos implementations, so I have CCed debian-kerberos
for open discussion.
debian-kerberos:
Josselin has some very good reasoning here, but I am not really
what to do. If these questions aren't asked, then the Kerberos
configuration will effectively be broken for all users.
Josselin:
Would it be sufficient if the first question simply asked:
"Do you want to configure Kerberos (Yes/No)?"
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:06:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Cascading dependencies now make a lot of things depend on the
> libkrb5-17-heimdal package (especially since libpgsql2 has kerberos
> support). However, libkrb5-17-heimdal depends on krb5-config, which
> contains two debconf questions that almost nobody should have to answer
> to (except those using kerberos, of course).
>
> It is exactly the kind of things that should be avoided if we want
> Debian to be usable by anybody. There has to be a way to install the
> kerberos shared libraries without having to install krb5-config. Then,
> people setting up a kerberos client should install a krb5-client
> package, for example, but this should not be done by default.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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