Re: [OM Cooker] Odp.: Re: Odp.: Re: Makedev perl to bash conversion

2013/7/31 Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]>

> Yes: /etc/passwd has been in the setup package since forever.
>
> Meanwhile the setup package is _NOT_ installed first in any rpm based
> distro I have personally seen all this century:
>      It Really Doesn't Matter
> whether you split or combine.
>
> I've made my point to Per Oyvind's complaint of a packaging "clean up"
> flaw: it simply isn't true that the change
> fixed (or created) any real world problem.

Indeed, it didn't create any at all.
The purpose of merging filesystem package with setup was however not to do
"clean up", but rather feeble attempt at fixing the issue with file
ownership caused by /etc/passwd not being present on system at the time of
the filesystem package being installed.
Unfortunately merging filesystem package with setup package doesn't solve
the problem either because /etc/passwd needs to be present before package
gets installed...

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Regards,
Per Øyvind