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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:25:45AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> > GLEP 27 [1] seems pretty stagnant and I'm planning on giving it a bit |
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> > of a refresh and actually implementing it. Now before I do this I'm |
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> > not in love with the format in tree but I haven't decided on a format |
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> > exactly in my head. So that being said, I'm sending this out looking |
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> > for some opinions or ideas for my new GLEP. One of the obvious things |
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> > I'll cover is all the ambiguity of the GLEP with regard to the data |
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> > inside each of the files. |
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> > |
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> > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html |
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> One idea worth considering is making users just ebuilds with a |
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> supporting eclass. |
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While I'm hugely in favour of having consistent UID/GIDs with no |
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conflicts over all Gentoo machines, I feel one of the reasons that the |
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GLEP failed was that users required by ebuilds changed over ebuild |
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versions, and the GLEP didn't seem to handle that well. |
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Cases I've seen in the tree: |
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- username change (slocate -> locate) |
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- homedir change |
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- shell change |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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