On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 22:21 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 6/9/19 7:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > + > > +All new users and groups must have unique UIDs/GIDs assigned > > +by developers. The developer adding them is responsible for checking > > +for collisions. > > > > ... > > > > +All user and group packages must define preferred fixed UIDs/GIDs, > > +and they must be unique within the repository. The packages should > > +indicate whether the value needs to be strictly enforced, or whether > > +another UID/GID is acceptable when the user exists already or requested > > +UID/GID is taken. > > + > > Maybe we should loosen this in the case of enforced UIDs. If two > user-packages truly do require the same fixed UID (for whatever godawful > reason), then obviously they can't be installed on the same machine, but > we could otherwise support both in the repository.
I'd rather not permit it up front. We can revisit this if it ever becomes really necessary. > > I don't want to encourage people to add such badly-written software to > the repo, but the alternative is also pretty ugly: if we require the > UIDs to be unique, and if two packages require the same enforced UID, > then whoever commits to ::gentoo first will prevent the other guy from > adding his package later on. The alternative is to prevent user from installing the second package without manually fixing his UID/GID table. This is horrible UX. I suppose patching one of the packages to use another UID/GID is probably better. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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