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Hi, |
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On 2021/12/01 03:32, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> This is the part of this that I don't understand. If we aren't enforcing |
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> an ID, why do we care which ID to try first? It seems to be an |
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> unnecessary step since users can pick the IDs they want by putting |
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> settings in make.conf. |
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Because when running clusters of hosts it's useful to have the UIDs for |
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"system" users match. Yes, I know this won't match in a multi-distro |
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setup, but at least for those of us with clusters consisting only of |
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Gentoo hosts it will *usually* match. Changing these are possible, but |
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a nuisance, so having it "just work" for the usual case is great IMHO. |
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If I'm not mistaken there is a setting to REQUIRE the ID, and that could |
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even be set from make.conf, or env/ so for those packages that we care |
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about that (eg, mailman running on top of glusterfs) we use that. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Jaco |
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