On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 09:20 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under > > > /home. > > > > Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup > > in > > multiple ways that are incompatible with the package manager > > installing > > things there (the only exception being baselayout creating the > > directory > > itself). > > I haven't been given a single technical reason why using /home would > cause a problem. What specific incompatibilities are you talking > about? > > > > Quoting FHS-3.0 again: > > > > > On large systems (especially when the /home directories are > > > shared > > > amongst many hosts using NFS) it is useful to subdivide user home > > > directories. Subdivision may be accomplished by using > > > subdirectories > > > such as /home/staff, /home/guests, /home/students, etc. > > > > So, how are you going to detect if such a scheme is used on the > > system, > > and in which subdirectory the amavis user should be placed? > > The same way we detect that scheme before setting a home directory to > /var/lib/whatever, which you may notice, is not under /home/guests or > anything like that. Does this cause a real technical problem, or is > it > just more FUD?
Rich has given reasons, ulm has, and mgorny suggested a solution. > > > I also wonder why you would send this patch, when there wasn't a > > single > > voice supporting your proposition in the other thread and several > > opposing ones. > > I don't want to just complain without offering a solution. > > No one has pointed out any problems with it. Multiple people have pointed out issues with it in the last thread. In fact, noone has said "great, go ahead". > > This stuff is already in /home, and I'd like to get off user.eclass > without introducing a new QA warning for a keepdir file. >
