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On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 10:01 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2019, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > User/group name/identifier collision detection |
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> > The user/group packages can install additional files in subdirectories |
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> > of ``/var/lib`` indicating their respective names and identifiers. |
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> > This ensures that if two packages ever happen to collide, the package |
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> > manager's collision detection mechanism will trigger. |
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> I wonder why that would be needed. It won't catch collisions with users |
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> created by the system administrator. Collisions between packages could |
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> certainly be prevented without littering the file system, e.g., by |
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> scanning ebuilds in that category (by repoman, or CI)? |
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To be honest, I had mixed feelings about this. I guess I can remove it, |
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and expect that we'll CI it properly before we phase out the old method. |
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> > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. |
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> s/http/&s/ |
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Sounds like vim templates need to be updated. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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