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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:38:43
Message-Id: 461e0dfd-d480-7af5-d1c1-5bb029376368@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default by "Michał Górny"
1 On 1/4/21 1:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 >
3 > Most importantly, it doesn't resolve the core issue of 'we need to
4 > update home before merging reverse dependencies'.
5 >
6
7 Quoth the devmanual, "if your package requires a user, you can no longer
8 be sure of that user's home directory or its ownership and permissions."
9 Any package depending on a new revision of an acct-user ebuild to change
10 its home directory is broken.
11
12 This was the exact problem I was trying to avoid while you made rude
13 comments about how I was wasting everyone's time =P