Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.1a Feedback

[Luke]

On Sat, 18 May 2002 16:05, andrew fabbro wrote:
> - I disagree with your approach to /etc/shells, /etc/passwd, and
> /etc/group. It seems like you pre-create every possible pseudo-user/group
> and shell that might ever be needed.  I'm never going to run qmail, and I
> don't need a bunch of qmail accounts.  If I did run qmail, I wouldn't need
> all those postfix-related accounts ;)  I think an installer should warn the
> user about adding a group, or add it automatically (there's a longer debate
> in there), but trying to foresee every possible package and adding users
> really goes against the "you build it from scratch" philosophy (IMO).

I second this, its getting harder to merge these files. If it werent for the 
fact that I "need" the new accounts (in case I ever want these programs) I 
could always keep my current files, with all the users Ive already added. It 
would be trivial for ebuilds to run useradd instead.

-- 
	Luke