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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:19:35
Message-Id: 20170127191916.72b70739@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:54:07 -0500
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > That satisfies most of the requirements that *I* have for user and
5 > group management on the system. Compared to the GLEP:
6 >
7 > * EUSERS + EGROUPS: replaced by (R)DEPEND.
8 > * Defining Accounts: anyone can add a new package already.
9 > * FEATURES=noautoaccts: use package.provided instead.
10 > * Local Overrides: use an overlay.
11 > * users-update: cleanup can be done with --depclean now.
12
13 +1
14
15 except package.provided which will probably be a mess to handle, but I
16 dont see why disabling it is a good idea: I'm assuming package will
17 misbehave at runtime if the user/group is missing
18
19 note that i dont think it fixes ROOT!=/ missing users though but
20 probably paves the way for it