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From:	Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:21:16
Message-Id:	`slrntl1q7e.4nuu.martin@larch.invalid`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: user.eclass by Mike Gilbert

1	Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
2	> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:08 PM Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
3	>>
4	>> Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
5	>> > user.eclass [...]
6	>>
7	>> It is needed for ebuilds in non-gentoo repositories which cannot
8	>> reserve a fixed number for users and groups.
9	>
10	> If you set ACCT_USER_ID=-1 or ACCT_GROUP_ID=-1, they
11	> will pick an available UID/GID upon installation.
12
13	I was not aware of that.
14	Indeed, it was probably added after I looked at the documentation last time:
15	https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo/commit/
16	c871b87b56208684b0a1fedeaf24fe10943748e2
17
18	Sorry for the noise.