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From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:28:36
Message-Id: f286c283-96b4-fe04-e937-a4575f3921c1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata by William Hubbs
1 On 1/20/20 6:57 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > All,
3 >
4 > as I recall I was one of the folks who suggested that uid-gid.txt should
5 > go in the api repository, but after thinking about it more and seeing it
6 > in practice, I see the error of my ways on this. ;-)
7
8 What's wrong with it?
9
10
11 >
12 > Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository.
13 > That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that
14 > install them.
15 >
16 > Thoughts?
17 >
18 > William
19
20 I think it'd be too easy to 'queue' up work, then ignore conflicts with
21 UID+GID but push your accts anyway. That's the only downside I came up
22 with, I don't really mind either way where it is.
23
24
25 -- juippis

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