Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > there is no problem with eutils.eclass
> > 
> > Because it is not intended to function for stage2? Or because it is
> > intended to assume that groupadd and friends are available?
> 
> the release building tools

(catalyst? or more like the profiles or spec files?)


> have to make shadow available earlier for Linux targets

Ok! Thanks for clearing it up!


> > But where is the problem? One idea is to provide another
> > implementation of these commands than the one in shadow.
> 
> this is a bad idea

I don't like it either. There would eventually be compatibility
problems, and it doesn't consider NSS.


//Peter