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On 2021-01-04 16:55, David Seifert wrote: |
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> This is what we agree on. We need an escape hatch, and it needs to be |
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> off by default. Any sysadmin overriding it gets to keep the pieces, but |
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> they need to have that option. |
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See Mike's example again. |
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In last chapter of Gentoo's handbook (Finalization) we recommend user to |
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call 'usermod' to put themselves into important groups like wheel or |
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portage. |
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Now guess what's happening? Whenever acct-user/portage will get |
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remerged, PM will remove that user from portage group (luckily groups |
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like wheel don't have users...). |
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Do you really want to extend handbook and tell everyone, "OK, as last |
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step, please create an overlay and fork acct-user/portage...". In case |
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the answer will be yes, we now have successfully killed the idea of |
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allowing maintainers to fix a user/group if this will ever be necessary |
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which will add some kind of slap stick to the whole idea. |
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That's why I am saying that we don't just need an opt-out option, that's |
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why I am argue that all this stuff has to be opt-in by default. It's |
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something special and unique in Gentoo. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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