Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] user.eclass: die if hard coded UID or GID is already in use

[Marek Szuba]

On 2019-05-27 16:45, William Hubbs wrote:

> If a package hard codes the UID or GID when adding a user or group to
> the system and that UID/GID already exists, we should abort rather than
> changing the UID/GID.

+1. It is of course my personal opinion but years of having been working
with various scientific software pipelines have made me rabidly allergic
to tools which do a different thing than what they were asked to do
unless explicitly allowed to do it this way. And what is the point of
specifying a "preferred" xID anyway? We cannot rely on these values
anywhere so IMHO all they do is add noise. And no, in my book "it has
always been like this" is not by itself a good reason to maintain the
status quo.

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MS