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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mgorny@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/9] User/group package draft implementation
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 16:37:17
Message-Id: 20190531163707.GA26571@whubbs1.dev.av1.gaikai.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/9] User/group package draft implementation by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 04:08:28PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 09:02 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > I have one small nit-pick.
4 > >
5 > > Can we use sys-users and sys-groups for the category names for the user
6 > > and group packages?
7 > >
8 > > I guess the only argument I can give is users and groups are system
9 > > level things like other categories that start with sys-, so it feels
10 > > like a good fit to me.
11 > >
12 >
13 > No. They would mix with regular packages which would be confusing.
14
15 How are you defining a regular package? A regular package to me is a
16 package that installs something on the system. A virtual does not
17 install anything directly.
18 A user or group package does install a user or group, so it does install
19 something.
20
21 William
22
23 >
24 > --
25 > Best regards,
26 > Michał Górny
27 >

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