Bug 688142

Summary:	sys-libs/cracklib installs "orphan" files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ta2002 <throw_away_2002>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	alexander
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ta2002 2019-06-16 02:28:40 UTC

Installing cracklib gives us:

/usr/lib/cracklib_dict.hwm
/usr/lib/cracklib_dict.pwd
/usr/lib/cracklib_dict.pwi

Yet these files don't appear in the "qlist cracklib" output, which causes portage to classify these files as orphans.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2019-06-17 20:47:42 UTC

I believe this is by-design: those files are generated by the "create-cracklib-dict" in pkg_postinst.

The sysadmin is also able to run this program on-demand if they need to regenerate the dictionary after creating a custom word list.