Maxime Gauduin wrote:

>The reason why permissions should be set in the PKGBUILD is because that
>way pacman can track them. Then it's up to the maintainer to choose
>UIDs/GIDs that do not conflict with official packages, and to the user to
>check that they don't already use that particular UID/GID ,before
>installing an AUR package.
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Maxime


I just want to add that I think hard-coding UIDs and GIDs is a very bad idea.
I would expect them to vary across systems.

No, I do not have a better suggestion.

Regards,
Xyne

Reply via email to