On Mar 19, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > No, they should not. The system groups referenced by udev should instead > always be present in /etc/group. Correct. > However, I wonder if Marco isn't arguing on the basis of old information; Me too, the maintainers of the relevant packages are encouraged to provide fresh information. > lookups for LDAP at boot time should not result in long timeouts, and it's a > bug in nss_ldap/libldap if they do - a bug which I thought had been > addressed by now. On Mar 19, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote: > Or, possibly better, the udev rules for groups dynamically added by > other packages should be moved to those other packages. In general, I I am considering (a mix of) this option as well. > like that better than dropping groups from the system on the basis of > either a random change in some other distribution or not knowing whether In every other distribution actually. > or not they're still useful. Obviously (?) I will remove a group only if it is clear that it is not useful. -- ciao, Marco
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