I would like to see Debians adduser package ported to ebuild. It consists only of two perl-scripts, a perl-module and two configuration-files + doc. I sucessfully modified them to fit gentoo but I can't write any ebuild script for it (lack of skill). So now I hope that this great little tool can get ported, it's really usefull for shellproviders.
you don't like superadduser?
see, if you were that specific in the first place, I woulda assigned this already :P
Created attachment 2279 [details] Debians adduser-package ported, but without ebuild Take a look at the features of this one. It's complete but it has no ebuild. To install: tar zxf adduser_3.47.tar.gz cd adduser-3.47 rm /usr/sbin/adduser (this is only a symbolic link) cp adduser /usr/sbin/ cp deluser /usr/sbin/ cp *.conf /etc cp AdduserCommon.pm /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/ All features are described in /etc/adduser.conf and /etc/deluser.conf
I very much agree that we need better account handling. However, the steps we take have to fit into the Grand Scheme of Things. Perl scripts is expressly excluded from that scheme. All system-level scripts in Gentoo are written in either bash or python. We've painstakingly rewritten prior Perl submissions to bash or python, so as to minimise the language fluency required to fix and maintain the most central, distribution-specific packages. It would warm our hearts tremendously if you made out a new bug, with the list of features your adduser script needed, then we'd integrate that with our ongoing work instead.
