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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:27:58
Message-Id: 4FD8DB7A.5030302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: enewuser should force updates to shell and home by Mike Gilbert
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4 On 13/06/12 02:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
5 > On 6/13/2012 12:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
6 >> Hey all - I'd like to propose that enewuser forces updates to a
7 >> user's home dir and shell whenever it is called, so that if this
8 >> changes with new versions of an ebuild it is dealt with
9 >> automatically rather than having to modify them in
10 >> pkg_postinst/pkg_setup directly.
11 >>
12 >
13 > Can you give an example of a case where modifying the home
14 > directory and/or shell is necessary? I don't really understand how
15 > this is useful.
16 >
17 > Also, grobian raised a good point in that the sysadmin may have
18 > changed it manually. It might be better to ewarn and make the user
19 > deal with it.
20 >
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22 The best example at this moment is for a polkit update. ssuominen can
23 give you the details.
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