On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:15:52PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > OK. I've been looking at some of these issues we've been having, and > I've been thinking of moving enewuser, egetent, and enewgroup to their > own eclass. This will resolve some issues with things in system, or > otherwise early on, requiring shadow on Linux to get useradd. Two > examples of this are bug #113298 and bug #94745. By putting them in > their own eclass, we can keep from adding shadow to DEPEND in eutils, > while still putting the dependency in the eclass that uses it.
i think i suggested this somewhere before, but why dont we just add shadow to packages.build ... then it'll be in stage[123] and the DEPEND will be a moot point -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list