> Philip Hands wrote: > > > > ppp is needed for doing an install from the internet via a dialup link. > > PAM is not needed until you want people to log into the system, so libpam > > is a waste of space on the install disks. > > The only advantage I can see is a couple of kilobytes of space on the > installation floppies. Otherwise, ppp is optional anyway. So I'd > prefer to see pppd stay as one package and linked with pam.
I thought that, until I noticed that libpam depends upon libpam-util, which depends upon libpwdb0, which together come to about 180k compressed. Once a few other things on the base disks use PAM (if they ever do) then I can always dump ppp-pam, make ppp support PAM, and make ppp conflict with ppp-pam. In the mean time, I think the version on the base disks needs to stay as it is (i.e. no PAM) to avoid putting another hurdle in front of Debian-2.0. Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
