[Patch] Adding fedfs to /etc/rpc

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> I don't know what you mean by supporting NIS.  The code in libnss_nis*
> can stay as-is until libtirpc is up to snuff.  At that point that
> library can be a build prerequisite and the DSOs can be linked with
> it.  No change needed for now.

I think making libtirpc a build dependency is bad - in general circular 
dependencies should be avoided where possible - as it makes bootstrapping 
unduly hard.  Better would be to separate libnss_nis* out completely into 
a separate package, not built as part of the glibc build at all; that 
separate package *would* then have libtirpc as a built dependency.

(I don't know what the right approach would be for the xdecrypt use in 
nss/nss_files/files-key.c, for example, to avoid libtirpc being needed to 
use nss_files - perhaps a dlopen of libtirpc much like some library 
functionality dlopens libgcc_s.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com