Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bastian Blank wrote: (BTW, Brian, this discussion reminds me that I'd like to use alternatives for krb5.conf.5 so that krb5-doc and heimdal-doc don't need to conflict. Prdon, this is missuse of that mechanism. man already can do that. How? Alternatives

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:19:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Using alternatives for kadmin is more problematic. Which means that you need to find a consens and rename _both_ if none is found. (BTW, Brian, this discussion reminds me that I'd like to use alternatives for krb5.conf.5 so that

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Sam Hartman
Yeah, I'm reasonably sure that alternatives are wrong for kadmin. Editor is intended to be used by a user. Kadmin is often used by users but is also quite often used by scripts. Editors also can all work with text files. It's basically not true that you can use a heimdal kadmin against an MIT

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Yeah, I'm reasonably sure that alternatives are wrong for kadmin. Editor is intended to be used by a user. Kadmin is often used by users but is also quite often used by scripts. [...] Well, if alternatives is the wrong approach, let's try an analytical approach: - heimdal-clients and

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:19:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Using alternatives for kadmin is more problematic. Which means that you need to find a consens and rename _both_ if none is found. I certainly agree that's an even worse option. -- Russ

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if alternatives is the wrong approach, let's try an analytical approach: - heimdal-clients and krb5-user must not both be installed: Clearly, conflicts: is indicated. Then both may provide kadmin. It will break no system (they can't both

Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-07 Thread Brian May
Hello, Can I please have some input into this bug report? The report itself seems valid, ideally these packages shouldn't conflict. Solving this in such a way as not to break lots of stuff could be awkward though. Ideas? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hello, Can I please have some input into this bug report? The report itself seems valid, ideally these packages shouldn't conflict. Solving this in such a way as not to break lots of stuff could be awkward though. Ideas? Are you guys really sure that alternatives are so misplaced

Re: Bug#482528: heimdal-clients,krb5-user

2008-07-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I please have some input into this bug report? The report itself seems valid, ideally these packages shouldn't conflict. Solving this in such a way as not to break lots of stuff could be awkward though. Ideas? Adding alternatives for