RFC: -server packages universe demotions and main promotions

[Adam Conrad]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 01:52:04PM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:39:16PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> > 
> > That said, my primary concern was that we have an identd in main; I
> > don't much care that it's oidentd; if there's a better alternative I'd
> > be happy with (and to migrate to) that.
> 
> Can you shed some light on why it's important to you to have an identd in
> main?  The primary use I'm aware of is for IRC clients, and even that seems
> dubious these days.

While it's only remotely useful on closed networks with trusted/known
clients (such as the one that Canonical runs in-house), I suspect the
use-case for ident auth in Postgres is still sufficiently large.  I
can't say what else people might use identd for, but Postgres can't be
the only client/server app from the old skool UNIX world that still
thinks it's a useful/handy thing to have around, regardless of its
limited scope (and complete lack of trust path) when used with
uncontrolled clients.

... Adam