Re: [HEADS UP]: OpenLDAP+nss_ldap+nss_modules separated patch and more (SoC)

From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie_at_le-hen.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:01:05 +0200
Hi Michael,

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:26:18PM +0400, Michael Bushkov wrote:
> This issue turned to be more complex than I originally expected. I 
> believe that "not having 2 different entities in the system, that do the 
> same thing" is the good rule. So maybe, leaving libldap.so(a) in 
> /usr/lib is not an absolutely good decision. But renaming libldap to 
> some other name and leaving it there (and enforcing everything beside 
> the base system to use almost the same ports' libldap) is probably much 
> more worse.
> So, after all, I'd prefer to leave libldap (and nss_ldap, which can also 
> conflict with PADL's nss_ldap) as is and let users use WITHOUT_LDAP and 
> WITHOUT_NSS_LDAP when appropriate.

Besides, this avoids to break POLA IMHO.  If OpenLDAP has to be
imported (is it something sure now ?), I strongly expect libldap
to have its real name, as other imported softwares.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
Received on Tue Aug 22 2006 - 19:00:33 UTC

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