While upgrading courier-authlib I noticed this: configure: WARNING: ----------------------------------------------------- configure: WARNING: expect not found - will not be able to change passwds configure: WARNING: in webmail configure: WARNING: ----------------------------------------------------- so I decided to install expect (which installed tcl) and the warning went away and I had the feature in. But there was nothing Gentooish that would suggest that. I think it would be nice to have an 'expect' use flag on courier-authlib with a description explaining that it will compile expect and that it will enable to change the password from the webmail. Thank you. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 8 2005, 17:24:17)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.ccccom.com" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm arts authdaemond avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib chroot crypt curl curlwrappers emacs emboss encode ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif imagemagick imap imlib inifile innodb ipv6 jabber jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox memlimit mhash mikmod mime mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl osspam pcre pdflib perl php png posix python quicktime readline sasl sdl session sharedext simplexml spell ssl svg svga tcpd threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vda vhosts wmf xml xml2 xmlrpc xsl xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Scott wanna go ahead and add a local use flag on this? would be nice I have to agree, would make it much easier for the user in my opinion for those that allow users to change password threw webmail interface.
Expect is a package that brings in a bit of the tcl/tk chain and as webmail is but a minority of the courier package, and expect is not needed within that for anything but changing system passwords, which itself is but a tiny portion of all webmail users... It was removed as a dependancy long ago for those reasons, and warnings printed by the ebuild were added at that time. Every version of the courier-authlib ebuild, which is in fact quite gentooish, contains: if ! has_version 'dev-tcltk/expect' ; then ewarn 'The dev-tcltk/expect package is not installed.' einfo 'Without it, you will not be able to change system login passwords.' einfo 'However non-system authentication modules (LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL,' einfo 'and others) will work just fine.' fi Perhaps we aren't printing it enough times, and it could probably use more bells and sirens. People notice those other messages but never the einfo/ewarns that are printed in color. I guess we should tone down our messages to only appear in black & white, and place them in obscure locations, in order for them to actually be noticed. Yes, lets print a message if the expect use flag isn't set which will say to add the use flag if they want to be able to change system passwords. That will be so much different from the current message which says to emerge expect if they want that feature. Of course, nobody ever bothered to read that message in the first place.
