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>>>>> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> I put together a draft of the "fixed UIDs with random fallback" model: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GLEP:User_packages |
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> If we decide to fix UID/GID management, I think it would be a lot |
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> easier to implement that draft than GLEP:27. I would be interested |
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> in hearing for which use cases GLEP:27 would be preferable. |
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Our syntax for package names is more restrictive than what POSIX |
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allows for a portable user name. Therefore, there could be user names |
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that are not representable. Have you checked if all user and group |
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names currently in use (at least in the main tree) also follow the |
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rules for package names? IIRC, at some point in time we had names |
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starting with "_" (which is ugly, but would be allowed as a package |
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name) and some "foo-1" type names (which are not allowed). |
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What about duplicates turning up in searches for packages? For example, |
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"emerge portage" won't work any more because there would be the ones |
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in sys-group and sys-user too. |
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Ulrich |
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