On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:52:13PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:54, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is so ugly. > > > > Last I looked, there wasn't much in NIS that wasn't. I think the amount > > of pain we should put other users through on account of NIS is very > > small (e.g., no longer asking about non-md5 passwords on install). > > Sounds reasonable. > > I guess we could make it all install for non-NIS systems by default and > assume that anyone who knows how to get NIS properly installed can sort > out the necessary changes. > > When comparing distributions they sometimes count the number of questions > asked at installation, by such a comparison Debian does very badly. While > I don't think that we should be aiming for a dozen questions on an > install, I think that we can productively remove some of the less common > options.
I think a single "Will you be using NIS?" question would be justified; this could provide defaults for md5 vs. crypt passwords and setuid-ness of unix_chkpwd, and so those questions could be suppressed by default. -- - mdz