Em 08-02-2016 17:28, Ken Moffat escreveu:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:27:10PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>> Em 08-02-2016 00:40, William Harrington escreveu:
>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 02:17:25 +0000
>>> Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build libpwquality, for whichever part of kde5 now
>>>> requires it.  I noted that we have PAM and Cracklib as
>>>> "Recommended".
>>>
>>> Fedora has a patch which is supposed to make it optional, as far as I can 
>>> tell.
>>>
>>> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/7QJQZCJYNFTX3BQ2UILGQQUBIOTJXAAL/
>>>
>>> Could make it required or optional with the patch if it is valid.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> William Harrington
>>>
>>
>> My preference is recommended, if possible. But agree with Ken's decision
>> if he still wishes to promote to required
>>
> My rational is that Recommended either means
> 
> (i.) The package can build without this, and without extra configure
> switches, but the recommended package provides useful extra
> functionality (is that a word ?)
> 
> or
> 
> (ii.) The package can be built without this, but you need to supply
> extra configure switches.
> 
> This package, as shipped, matches neither option.  I am reluctant to
> include a patch in the book just so that people can detune what
> upstream shipped.

Agreed!


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