jacob berkman wrote: > On 9/14/07, Wolfgang Rosenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So where is the bug number in that changelog entry? We are after beta3 >> so I'd expect a bugnumber here. > > There is no bug number because nobody has used the functionality that > this supports. The second someone would try to use it there would be > one! There are plenty of relevant fate #s, such as 301351 and then a > really vague one or two. I could certainly open a new bug. > >> What's the reason to merge the tools subpackage to the base package? > > The packages that perform system-wide certificate authentication > (pam_pkcs11, krb5-preauth-plugin-pkinit or something) use a > system-wide nss database for configuration of pkcs11 packages. The > postinst scripts for pkcs11 packages should probably add themselves to > this system db, but someone needs to create this database in the first > place. It may as well be the nss package itself.
That might be all true and actually a thing like that was planned when I still was there. I don't argue against the fact that the -tools package is needed anyway in these cases. > So, that means that the tools package is always needed; No, it isn't. mozilla-nss (the libs) are used by the mozilla applications (and a few others) which don't need the tools. So it's not _always_ needed to have a working NSS environment. It's _always_ needed if "(pam_pkcs11, krb5-preauth-plugin-pkinit or something)" is used. That's the difference. > I asked on one > of the opensuse lists (-gnome?) last week about this, but I guess > you're not on that? No, I'm not. I don't have anything to do with Gnome but I have much to do with mozilla and NSS isn't Gnome related at all. > Anyway I don't really care either way what the > package layout is; we just need to make sure that both the libs and > tools are both installed by anyone who needs nss. OK, that's a valid point but the solution IMHO is not to add the tools to the library package but having correct dependencies or patterns reflecting the requirement. Thanks for your feedback, Wolfgang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
