Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:08 PM Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: >> >> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > user.eclass [...] >> >> It is needed for ebuilds in non-gentoo repositories which cannot >> reserve a fixed number for users and groups. > > If you set ACCT_USER_ID=-1 or ACCT_GROUP_ID=-1, they > will pick an available UID/GID upon installation.
I was not aware of that. Indeed, it was probably added after I looked at the documentation last time: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo/commit/ c871b87b56208684b0a1fedeaf24fe10943748e2 Sorry for the noise.
