From: Mike Frysinger Subject: Re: [PATCH] make capabilities support optional Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:29:41 -0400 Message-ID: <201004231529.42370.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <1271753213-17374-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <4BD1E55B.2090703@RedHat.com> <4BD1F121.1060001@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2711601.59qovGvnsZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Cc: Steve Dickson , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:33878 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818Ab0DWT2k (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:28:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BD1F121.1060001@oracle.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart2711601.59qovGvnsZ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 23 April 2010 15:12:33 Chuck Lever wrote: > If we really do need to drop libcap for some configurations, then such a > change should be thoroughly tested in those environments. Some features > won't always work without libcap, and appropriate warnings should be > added to man pages and/or should be displayed by statd. there should be appropriate documentation regardless. current nfs-utils li= sts=20 no information at all in ChangeLog/NEWS/README/INSTALL or any other documen= t=20 explaining why/what/how libcap is needed/used. you cant do documentless du= mps=20 on distro maintainers and expect them to "just know" what is going on. thi= s=20 isnt the first time the nfs related packages suddenly started requiring new= =20 libraries out of the blue when in reality things could be done optionally, = nor=20 is this the first patch ive sent to try and address what appears to be=20 unnecessarily hard deps. kerberos readily comes to mind. i'd point out that from a distro POV, the DAEMON section of the top level=20 README is single handily the best thing added in a long time. =2Dmike --nextPart2711601.59qovGvnsZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJL0fUmAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBy1IQAKwCYJ13WJRbKN8SNFfjDKgI baPUO+0DrygGnsJontL5JMeOeBsajvjrId+U8aMLAkfUZYT7vCE1Fe2sz6hsvPWk sa/EIUeRZR1fbWHQlvnr7PQziXxy9cNK/Gg2rWzMOWL4cY1twZRYqXozMPmGjVkC xLJRYLb7OtnP+oS34fV9ZuuvGYz2eGcyo9G0NhkYGu3npzSovY8h1ogSvK1Ja7VW dVP9q8xS7gKEOmfOLt9IRrfUYBUsT5jGeo4j+Zy69Uza8CHk/jmKl5brHEWp+jUr Tzyu7Pp6b1lqAsFGUHnAaQowPoiWvgy8zD7UpKGxeWYv+6sUr3ZRTOmcwf3EAE6q fxGL6pA38VZct1vG/IDc7bpIo5GsWrCb1AvflRBqdkCRDt9ZX26w3loP8WBpteR9 WdEJ5meSWRGb4le1blu7q7RFjVc9n1+YwB2PurVCYhKx9n68vyga7p6yT0FM74Ab +9iKEaIQlHIn5eobfJ4RPN5g91ts+oGlUDXFs9D7Fpr6ZXImdjSMnA9ArVpFazll wH6Qk7Xmvx7ATlhbBjznxyDwbaJTTj7no7x7MkUUO7WNDNJnfwIAH72D0WcqRMqQ F/3iJbdsUiAnLcQOX4lsO8lmvK9uS0iiJwZdX2WFbxaPFiStMM3Po0BmoBjytFkq 97+Z9PECtvmbSCBTWaBn =kfGP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2711601.59qovGvnsZ--