Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

>   install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.

Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup in
multiple ways that are incompatible with the package manager installing
things there (the only exception being baselayout creating the directory
itself).

Quoting FHS-3.0 again:

| On large systems (especially when the /home directories are shared
| amongst many hosts using NFS) it is useful to subdivide user home
| directories. Subdivision may be accomplished by using subdirectories
| such as /home/staff, /home/guests, /home/students, etc.

So, how are you going to detect if such a scheme is used on the system,
and in which subdirectory the amavis user should be placed?

I also wonder why you would send this patch, when there wasn't a single
voice supporting your proposition in the other thread and several
opposing ones.

Ulrich