Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:13:41 +0400 From: "Michael Bushkov" <bushman@rsu.ru> To: "Doug Barton" <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP]: OpenLDAP+nss_ldap+nss_modules separated patch and more (SoC) Message-ID: <002e01c6c744$97bc9560$9800a8c0@carrera> References: <44E9582C.2010400@rsu.ru> <44ECBB7D.4090905@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Michael Bushkov wrote: > Here is where (once again) we have a difference of opinion. I still > believe > strongly that the nss_ldap part of your work should be a port, with a > dependency on the openldap in ports. I've stated my reasoning on this in > the > previous thread, so I won't rehash it here unless someone asks. I would > like > to point out though that I feel the numerous problems raised in this > thread > give even more weight to the request that I, and others made not to have > it > incorporated into the base. > > This in no way is meant to indicate that your work has no value, or is > somehow "less valuable" than work that is actually in the base. It is > simply > a realistic reflection of the fact that this facility will be needed by a > small percentage of FreeBSD users, and the difficulties (costs) outweigh > the > corresponding benefit. > > A compromise position, if it can be made to work, would be to import your > original work on the nss_ldap module, but have it use openldap from ports > rather than having to import openldap. Well, maybe more compromise solution will be to have OpenLDAP and nss_ldap in the base, but to have them turned off by default, so the user would need to specify WITH_LDAP and WITH_NSS_LDAP in the make.conf to build them. More, if the user don't want to have OpenLDAP built with the base, but wants nss_ldap there, he'd have the ability to link nss_ldap against the ports. And we should also have rewritten nss_ldap in ports (call it nss_ldap_bsd, for example). IMHO, It's quite a flexible scheme that should satisfy most number of users. My main concern with such solution is: will it affect the capability of installing OpenLDAP and nss_ldap out of the box? With best regards, Michael Bushkov
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