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On 13/02/20 16:17, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 8:32 PM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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>> In short: It was a very bad decision that acct-* stuff is *changing* |
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>> existing stuff. This must be turned of *by default*. Maybe provide a |
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>> setting a user can put into make.conf to opt into current, still new, |
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>> behavior but by default, a package should never ever make changes to |
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>> *existing* user (unless it knows for sure it was the only source |
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>> creating that user and nothing was changed since creation which isn't |
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>> easy to track). |
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> I think it would make sense to add some eclass variables that would |
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> turn user.eclass functions into no-ops. |
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> I don't agree that this should be happen by default. I suspect the |
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> majority of users do not wish to manage system users/groups |
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> themselves. |
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I would suggest anyone competent enough to build a kernel from scratch |
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(genkernel users, I'm ignoring you) should be equally at-home managing |
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system users and groups and associated permissions? Or am I perhaps |
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overestimating the average Genbuntu users here ... >,< |
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