On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01/28/2017 09:22 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Honestly, I really will say "so what" here. :) > > > > I forgot to mention a few of the advantages of having really-fixed UIDs. > First, it makes the code simpler. Yup, cool. > > It also lets us play a nice trick and use the UID as a subslot, so that > if some sys-user/foo package ever changes its UID, everything depending > on it can be rebuilt to use the new UID. > That's nonsense for reasons already mentioned by rich0. UIDs don't change except in the case of an admin doing it manually.
