Re: [arch-general] systemd user accounts are created in a inconsistent way

2016-02-02 Thread Alain Kalker
Op 2 feb. 2016 22:24 schreef "Damjan Georgievski" : > it's better to let `systemd-sysusers` create all users, /etc/passwd > should probably not be included in any package > since it changes in the lifetime of the distro and updates are hard to merge. Agreed. And while we're at

Re: [arch-general] Can we talk about the systemd mkinitcpio hook for a minute?

2015-09-20 Thread Alain Kalker
On 09/04/2015 04:37 PM, Chris Bell wrote: Hello all, First off, apologies if this has been/is being discussed elsewhere, but this has been on my mind for quite some time. The state of the systemd mkinitcpio hook has been bothering me recently. It seems that there is some confusion/ambiguity

Re: [arch-general] Improve the filesystem package

2014-08-20 Thread Alain Kalker
On 08/01/2014 02:03 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Yamakaky yamak...@yamaworld.fr wrote: Hi /etc/{group,gshadow,passwd,shadow} could be removed as the base users and groups are already created by the upstream sysusers.d files. The arch-specific ones (like bin or

Re: [arch-general] Improve the filesystem package

2014-08-20 Thread Alain Kalker
On 08/20/2014 02:04 PM, Alain Kalker wrote: Also, why ship the /etc/shadow, /etc/gshadow files at all? AFAIK, nothing is supposed to mess with the shadow files anyway, except pwconv and grpconv (for initially converting a freshly installed, non-shadow system into one using shadow files), after

[arch-general] Upgrade to linux-3.7.3: system freezes on certain actions in X

2013-01-22 Thread Alain Kalker
Hardware Info: System:Host: miki-desktop Kernel: 3.6.11-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.7.2) Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro: Arch Linux Machine: Mobo: FUJITSU SIEMENS model: MS-7504VP version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: V1.16 date: 08/11/2008 CPU: Dual