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On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 18:09 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> On 2020-02-14 16:38, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> > Could you just explain please? I’m not inclined to read through the |
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> > handbook and rebuild a system to guess what this horrible breakage might |
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> > be. |
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> My point is, that even the handbook tells user to modify groups. I.e. |
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> you should add your user to group X for being able to do Y... |
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> That's OK. That's normal. |
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> But if everything in Gentoo has migrated to acct-* stuff, these changes |
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> will get reverted once the user will re-emerge world including acct-* |
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> package or such a package will get updated for some reason. |
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Why would that happen? We don't have acct-user/youruser. |
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> This is unexpected. Also, I hope nobody expects that every user using |
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> sudo for example needs to maintain an own acct-*/sudo fork in his/her |
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> overlay in future just because in Gentoo, you cannot use normal Linux |
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> tools like usermod anymore because your changes might get resetted |
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> during some upgrade. |
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Nope, this isn't true. You're getting things the other way around. |
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> That's what currently might happen with the current implementation which |
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> tries to keep user/group state like described in package. Something you |
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> will only see in Gentoo and no other distribution. |
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Have you really verified your claims? Because I really start feeling |
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like you've voted for the GLEP without reading it, and then started |
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recruiting people to change it based on guesses, still without reading |
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it or understanding the implementation. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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