Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
>> On 2003-10-16 21:39 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:00, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> > > The package postgresql needs to use 'adduser' and 'addgroup' in its
>> > > preinst script to properly save the current database before upgrading
>> > > (cf. Bug #180199). Therefore it should pre-depend on 'adduser'.
>>> Why would there be an issue on depending on a more important package?
>>> Having an optional/misc package pre-depend on an important/base
>>> package seems like a non-issue to me.
>> adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be
>> installed when installing postgres. I'm not quite sure what you mean,
>> could you please explain this?
> Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql
> package.
> useradd is included in the package passwd, which is "required" package
> from the "base" section.
IBTD. Apart from the fact that using adduser is explicitely recommended
in policy having _all_ packages use the same interface for
user-allocation IMHO is valuable on its own and outweighs getting rid
of a predependency.
cu andreas
