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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:58:21
Message-Id: 18c04420b7e0993afdafade688803006d220a86d.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dynamic groups and users by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 11:46 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 8/2/19 5:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > Sure. Please preferably address two of them separately, so we can
4 > > commit the 0 patch first, and -1 when CI is ready.
5 > >
6 >
7 > Maybe I'm just feeling cynical, but what do we gain by adding support
8 > for something that no real package should do? Is it just to avoid
9 > thinking up any number and typing it in?
10 >
11
12 Given that overlays won't do proper assignment, the numbers they choose
13 may collide with numbers used in ::gentoo. Forcing explicit assignment
14 from dynamic range is cleaner in that regard.
15
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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