[gentoo-alt] enewuser() and consorts in eutils.eclass

[Dirk Tilger]

Hi,

first of all. I'm very happy that there is such a thing as Gentoo-alt
and that there is such a thing as prefixed portage. I have been moving
from system to system in the past and I am so happy that instead of
struggling with the new world (Darwin) I can just put the accustomed one
(Gentoo) in a corner.

I've found the following code in usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass:
| enewuser() {
| 	# in prefix portage, we don't know how to handle this yet
| 	ewarn "'enewuser()' currently disabled in prefixed portage"
| 	return 0

I was wondering what the motivation behind this is, i.e. what you guys
count as the issues that have to be addressed (and that are not
addressed in the current form), before this function and its friends in
eutils can be called again.

I have been in the need for proper service startup/shutdown scripts for
some of the services I had ported lately and have spend the last two
days porting the existing service script architecture to prefixed
portage and Darwin. So I got now the best service scripts out there.

The final issue I'm facing now is that some daemons better run under
their own user accounts. I was wondering if for the time being some
compromise between the existing functionality and the reasons for
disabling the functionality can be found. 

I've seen parts in enewuser() for example calling `dscl` to create
Darwin NetInfo user accounts. If the scripts shouldn't be called
automatically, maybe we can generate shell scripts in the meantime with
the appropriate commands (leaving the warning intact) for the
administrator to run manually. That would allow some last tweaks (and
shift the blame in case of mess-up).

Any ideas or suggestions?

Dirk.
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