Re: nss_compat for non-NIS services

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 03/13/2017 02:40 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 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.

Sure, I understand that.  My question was not about deprecation as such, 
but if there is a reasonable expectation that nss_compat works in a 
NIS-less environment.

We split nss_compat from the main glibc package in Fedora and put it 
together with nss_nis (based on a manpage at the time, which said that 
it was NIS-only).  I'll consider moving it back to the main glibc 
package if there is actual non-NIS usage for nss_compat.

Thanks,
Florian