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On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 09:28 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Here's a reiteration (or well, rewrite) of mjo's earlier work [1]. I've |
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> made it into more GLEP-ish form, removed inline code samples which |
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> belong in implementation part and did some changes. |
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> The main change from the earlier proposal is that we are extremely |
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> careful not to break stuff. Packages only create users/groups if they |
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> don't exist, they do not modify existing accounts. Users and groups are |
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> not removed at all. The text included below. |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GLEP:User_packages |
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FTR, I've placed my initial code in [1]. It's neither complete, nor |
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final design. I have to address a number of old bugs for user.eclass |
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first. |
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[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/12129 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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