Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/5] www-apps/gitea: Use acct-{group,user}/git

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 8/17/19 4:54 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 10:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't there be a blocker against dev-vcs/gitolite{,-gentoo}
>> (and vice versa)? These packages cannot be installed at the same time,
>> and I guess that a direct blocker would result in a friendlier error
>> message than REQUIRED_USE magic in acct-user/git.
>>
>
> You're probably right.  I'll update the patches to add mutual blockers
> everywhere.
>

I discovered on the pull request that "git" is just the name that the
upstream examples use, but isn't required for either gitolite or gitea:

  * https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-binary/

  * https://gitolite.com/gitolite/concepts#the-hosting-user

For example, on Fedora and Debian, gitolite uses a "gitolite" user. We
should also be able to use "gitea" for gitea, meaning that the two
packages don't have to block each other, and that they don't have to
fight over the same username.

I realize we'd have to tell people how to rename the account to support
upgrades -- but is there some other reason to keep the shared "git" name?