Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 13:07 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 1/4/21 11:45 AM, James Cloos wrote:
> > > > > > > "RHJ" == Robin H Johnson <robbat2@g.o> writes:
> >
> > RHJ> The best I can come up with at the moment, is that any packaging should
> > RHJ> detect if there are user modifications, and provide control to users
> > RHJ> based on that fact.
> >
> > Exactly.  Akin to etc-update.
> >
>
> We could implement this with something like an /etc/users.d directory
> that would be populated with entries by either the admin or package
> manager with CONFIG_PROTECT enabled. Then the system database would be
> updated by running something like "users-update" (cf. env-update). The
> essential problem that we need to work around is that e.g. /etc/passwd
> is "owned" by multiple system packages.

Most importantly, it doesn't resolve the core issue of 'we need to
update home before merging reverse dependencies'.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny