Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/4] acct-group.eclass: Fix for when building in a rooted prefix (EROOT)

[Mike Gilbert]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:24 AM James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
> The new eclasses also skip the operation if you are root. As that bug report
> says, running a prefixed system as root is probably unsupported. I was doing
> this as root into a ROOTed prefix though, which is slightly different. Should
> we also skip the operation if EPREFIX non-empty? I'll think about it.

I would be in favor of skipping adding users/groups if EPREFIX is
non-empty, at least as a temporary solution.

If someone presents a use case where adding users to
${EROOT}/etc/passwd makes sense, we can revisit it then.