From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 226E31382C5 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72A71E0A65; Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 395ECE0A0B for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20210104013558.20072-1-whissi@gentoo.org> <89a1c171-de56-4f9e-af2a-9140d2be3552@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <461e0dfd-d480-7af5-d1c1-5bb029376368@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:38:36 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: a5fd88e2-4d21-4fb0-96db-9c180cb94b91 X-Archives-Hash: ed05aa404839a8009c0101ee47ae57fd On 1/4/21 1:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Most importantly, it doesn't resolve the core issue of 'we need to > update home before merging reverse dependencies'. > Quoth the devmanual, "if your package requires a user, you can no longer be sure of that user's home directory or its ownership and permissions." Any package depending on a new revision of an acct-user ebuild to change its home directory is broken. This was the exact problem I was trying to avoid while you made rude comments about how I was wasting everyone's time =P