On 03/02/15 17:58, Andrew Gregory wrote: > -1 for systemd-sysusers unless you can figure out a way to use it in > pre_install. In order for the dynamic user creation Allan mentioned > to work, pacman will have to be changed to use symbolic user names for > file ownership which requires the user to exist *before* the package > is extracted.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like systemd-sysusers can be used for that, since the user and group information is stored in a sysusers.d file. But for packages that use static (reserved) user/group IDs, it should work a treat. :)

