Re: glue ehancement?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
> > Howard Chu wrote:
> > > Seems like it would be a good idea to define a new option "glue-peer" or
> > > somesuch that allows multiple peer-level DBs to be glued together.
> >
> > What exactly do you mean with peer-level DBs? I didn't get what
> > the idea is for...
>
> Mainly for grafting OpenLDAP on top of an existing, poorly designed 
> someone-else's DIT.

Well, the reason why I'm nit-picking: Someone who isn't able to 
consolidate a poorly designed DIT could blame the functionality in 
OpenLDAP instead of rethinking his/her own approach if things 
doesn't work. The configuration of such a beast will get complex.

> Yeah, good questions. Perhaps it is better addressed by 
> enhancing slapo-translucent instead to allow local entries to 
> exist independently of remote ones. At least in that case,
> there is a clearly defined precedence. (All local data
> overrides any remote data.)

And this clear precedence makes it usable. :-)

Ciao, Michael.