On 2021-01-04 19:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> People like me could just ignore changed users if changes won't go live
>> until you run said users-update command or make use of INSTALL_MASK.
>>
> 
> Changes wouldn't go live until you ran etc-update, and *then* users-update.

This would address my concerns.

But I still wonder if building such a system is worth it... I mean, it 
would be nice to have. Maybe we could build upon such a system to do 
same for (changed) file permissions...


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