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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:44:30
Message-Id: c2ed9025-ac83-b4b9-e814-33431c4d1140@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home by "Michał Górny"
1 On 1/18/20 2:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 >
3 > Sounds like you've created an arbitrary rule that prevents the two
4 > packages from using the same directory, and therefore you've created
5 > this problem yourself. Why not just go back and reconsider using
6 > the same directory instead of adding complexity for ideological reasons?
7 >
8 > Is it really that problematic to have the directory created by amavisd
9 > user, and have all packages depend on it?
10 >
11
12 The user's home directory is conceptually and (usually) literally
13 separate from the daemon's working directory. That's upstream, not in my
14 head. So it's wrong to combine them in principle, especially given that
15 it creates security timebombs when two packages "share" a directory.