> The reason why permissions should be set in the PKGBUILD is because that
> way pacman can track them.
Interesting. I didn't know Pacman could do that. The phrases "UID", "uid"
and "gid" do not appear in the man pages for pacman or pkgbuild. Is this
undocumented behaviour?
> 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.
Ick. I think that's an unnecessary and unreasonable expectation that
results in a more fragile and unmaintainble system.
As for a better solution? Hmm. `install` (and probably other tools too) can
reference user and group names directly. Thus, this:
> install -o141 -g141 -dm750 "${pkgdir}/var/log/inspircd"
Could also be written as this:
> install -o inspircd -g inspircd -dm750 "${pkgdir}/var/log/inspircd"
--Jeremy
