On 9/13/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/13/07, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CVSROOT: /sources/goboscripts > > Module name: tools > > Changes by: Hisham Muhammad <hisham> 07/09/13 23:29:37 > > > > Modified files: > > BuildLiveCD/bin: MakeSystemSettings > > > > Log message: > > Add missing groups > > While you're on it, I remember having problems with the shipped DBus > package due to missing messagebus (or was it dbus?) user/group.. > What's the best way to deal with these packages that require special > user/groups? Should we just have them by default in passwd/group?
That's a good question. I noticed some problems today caused by our use of the Gentoo udev rules; they had some groups like "cdrw" and "usb". I simplified the rules to use more generic groups like "cdrom". Still, I peeked into an Ubuntu system and they do have lots of groups there. I'm guessing shipping as many predefined groups as possible would keep things simple with regard to maintenance and compatibility. I didn't copy the whole bunch of groups from other distros, but I wonder if that wouldn't be beneficial. I understand that conceptually having less groups is cleaner, but fighting an uphill battle against a lot of packages expecting groups to be there is not worth it. The existance of all these groups can normally be just ignored in normal desktop use, anyway. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
