nss_ldap and openldap importing

[Peter Jeremy]

On Fri, 2006-Jul-07 10:06:55 +0400, Michael Bushkov wrote:
>1. Having nss_ldap in the source gives an ability to use nss_ldap right 
>"out of the box" and equals it in rights with such nsswitch sources as NIS 
>and DNS. If we have NIS in the base system, I don't see any reasons not to 
>have nss_ldap. Besides, i'm sure, having nss_ldap in the base will make 
>users feeling more comfortable when dealing with it.

I don't think this follows.  Things like X and perl can be installed
from sysinstall with mininal effort.  I'd prefer to make it easier
to install nss_ldap as a package than have it in the base system.

>2. I guess, we'll have to rewrite nss_ldap by ourselves sooner or later 
>(actually, I can do it), so current nss_ldap import can be viewed as the 
>first stage of the plan.

It would seem cleaner to implement our own nss_ldap from scratch
rather than importing a GPL one and then replacing it.  IMHO, having
the GPL nss_ldap in the tree would make it harder to import another
one.  Once people start using nss_ldap, they are going to get very
picky about a replacement being bug-for-bug compatible.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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