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On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:44 AM Joonas Niilola <juippis@g.o> wrote: |
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> Honestly I'd say just put -1 on all acct- packages then let sys admins |
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> modify them locally to whatever they need. I feel like this whole GLEP |
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> just serves the minority while making many other contributors uneasy. |
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I think we're worrying far too much about people with decade-old |
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installs. Just come up with a reasonable set of defaults and as long |
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as it can adapt to whatever is already in /etc/passwd we're fine. |
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Having UIDs chosen completely at random seems fairly non-optimal. |
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Suppose you're building containers/etc and then bind-mounting in |
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persistent storage (/var/lib/mysql and so on). Wouldn't it be nice if |
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the default were that mysql would get the same UID on every build? I |
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guess you could provide an initial /etc/passwd on every fresh build |
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but it just seems like an extra step. |
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This isn't about serving the minority so much as not letting the |
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perfect be the enemy of the good. Yes, there are reasons why GLEP 81 |
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won't be perfect. That doesn't mean that it isn't a good idea... |
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Rich |
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