I've just got home and read this thread. It's OK by me, Martin, to make the change, in view of the tenor of the replies.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:17, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. If any package that needs to add a user should always use adduser, should that not be a required package rather than just important? I had always thought that Pre-Dependencies were very much discouraged. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Trust in the LORD, and do good..." Psalms 37:3
