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On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 19:22 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> Let it die =) I'm not going to apply the patch; it's there if someone |
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> else decides that it's the least-bad solution to this problem. |
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> On 1/20/20 6:57 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > Why *isn't* some /var/lib/... possible here? |
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> It is, the question is how many backflips we should be doing to avoid |
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> putting what is practically and factually a home directory in /home. I |
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> have a few of these packages. I will echo ulm's sentiment that it's just |
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> awful to put them all in |
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> /var/lib/user1-home |
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> /var/lib/user2-home |
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> ... |
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> rather than /home/user1 and /home/user2. |
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> That's also second-guessing the administrator, whose home directory |
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> policies for e.g. backups very likely apply to the home directories I'm |
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> creating. (Keep in mind that I'm only talking about exceptions for very |
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> special packages that install a system user that will also be used by a |
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> human or that stores per-user configuration. And the exception is only |
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> for the keepdir file.) |
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> Home directories in /home were also allowed with user.eclass, which |
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> means that we now hit a roadblock updating those accounts to GLEP81. |
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Please don't conflate 'allowed' with 'nobody noticed it'. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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