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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC, PATCH] user.eclass: gracefully return when unprivileged
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 21:23:34
Message-Id: 5236f85a-2429-6294-5119-5670ef205a61@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC, PATCH] user.eclass: gracefully return when unprivileged by Mike Gilbert
1 On 11/27/2017 10:16 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> You should now be able to do compilation and tests without having the
5 >> user/group created. For example, dev-db/postgresql doesn’t need the
6 >> postgres system user and group in order to successfully run through
7 >> src_test and src_install. It just needs the user/group at run time.
8 >
9 > Sounds like the enewuser call should be moved from pkg_setup to
10 > pkg_postinst in that case.
11 >
12
13 https://bugs.gentoo.org/525828