nss_compat for non-NIS services

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Mon, Mar 13, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Historically, nss_compat was documented as a NIS thing.
> 
> However, it seems that its used has evolved considerably since that.  Do we
> see a future for it beyond NIS?  Should we advertise its existence for use
> with non-NIS service modules?

Currently it is still part of glibc and I have still no Ok to submit my "deprecating libnsl"
patches.
But even if we deprecate it, in my opinion it doesn't make any difference,
if it is part of glibc or coming from an "external" package. LDAP and similar stuff 
is doing that, too.

  Thorsten

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