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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:55:58
Message-Id: 4ca9ea6d4b2c2f0f7c29319d2c0015e2fec2b773.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 10:24 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > I understand that creating an overlay with acct-user overrides will
3 > not
4 > be for everyone, so I have no problem with adding an escape hatch. I
5 > do
6 > think it should be off by default though, and that missing future
7 > ::gentoo changes will not be a problem unless some other error has
8 > been
9 > committed first.
10
11 This is what we agree on. We need an escape hatch, and it needs to be
12 off by default. Any sysadmin overriding it gets to keep the pieces, but
13 they need to have that option.

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