On Jan 30, 2008 3:24 AM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/1/30, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Jan 30, 2008 1:22 AM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > We'll have to settle on a numbering for these required user/group ids
> > > > (which are not that much). Given that Resources/Requirements provide
> > > > include that id that would not be a problem.
> > > >
> > > We don't need the numbers. Just keep a list in Requirements over what
> > > files were owned by which user and run 'chown' after installation.
> >
> > That depends on what we want. The numbers helps us to keep recipes
> > simple, and it's already implemented.. :)
> >
> In what way is numbers more simple? If we use number we have to know
> that it correspond to the correct user in the target system. With
> names we can just grep for the appropriate number in
> /System/Settings/passwd

Using numbers only, required_users[] and required_groups[] are enough
to make the program work. On the other hand, the second implementation
will require required_users[] / required_groups[] _plus_ a new list (a
la unmanaged_files[]) of files that need to be chown'd. That just
makes the recipe bigger.

-- 
Lucas
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