Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

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I'd see this overlay more appropriate for contrib/slapd-modules right now, until its functionality is considered of general usefulness, which doesn't seem to be the case right now.

Do you think an overlay in the contrib directory could have its --enable flag in top level configure?

My feeling about the contrib directory is that it is some kind of evil swamp where things are much more difficult to automatically build for inclusion in a package.

It is :). However, I think only generally useful things should go into mainstream. As such, I remember some overlays moving from overlays/ to slapd-modules/ and others moving the other way, based on their generality and usefulness.

For example, smbk5pwd should be in overlays/, given its usefulness, but it is probably not general enough. Yours is general (i.e. not tied to a specific architecture or interoperation issue), but probably of limited usefulness (how many users would actually need it?).

That's my opinion, of course. I suggest you start from contrib/ and then we'll vote for moving it to overlays/.

p.

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