On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 20:35 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:19:36 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > I interpreted 'reserved' as 'free to use' on > > > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/UID_GID_Assignment > > > Can you tweak it to someting other than 'reserved' so it would be > > > clear? > > > > That's what the "Notes" column was intended for. > > > > > I'll use 60001 .. 60999 / 61001 .. 61999. Is it free though? > > > '60001..65533' claims to also be 'reserved' as well. > > > > Debian is also using the range above 60000 for allocations that > > won't > > fit into the low range. Theoretically, there is some overlap with > > systemd dynamic users (61184..65519), but IIUC assigning other UIDs > > in > > that range isn't a problem, as long as there are enough free IDs > > left. > > > > Another question, the above are about 2000 users and 2000 groups. > > Does that imply that we will eventually end up with 4000 packages > > in acct-{user,group}? > > Should be 2000 users, 2 groups. Worst case it's 2002 packages, yes. >
For a package manager that likely only 3 Gentoo users in the world use? I don't consider that particularly helpful, and am very much inclined to oppose that.
