On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:03 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> I sent the following to SpanKY a while back as my thoughts on how to
> move GLEP 27 away from xml (which the portage devs would really rather
> avoid).  It has his tentative approval, so now I'd like to get some
> general comments.  GLEP 27 is a really good idea, and it would be nice
> to have it implemented.
> 
> -g2boojum-
> ----- Forwarded message from Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> -----
> 
> From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:37:03 -0600
> To: vapier@gentoo.org
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
> Subject: glep 27 thoughts
> 
> I've been thinking a bit about how to make uid/gid handling work w/o
> needing xml.  It seems like it ought to be simple enough to replace
> the xml files with simple plain-text files which look like the
> following:
> 
> # cat groups/dovecot
> gid = 97
> 
> # cat users/dovecot
> uid = 97
> shell = /bin/false
> home = /dev/null
> groups = dovecot, foo, bar
> gecos = Added by portage for dovecot # (normally autogenerated)
> 
> Essentially, these files would just contain the same information as what
> one would use w/ groupadd and useradd, but w/ more readable syntax.
> 
> I'm also thinking that instead of putting these files in
> portage/profiles/accounts, perhaps we should permit an "accounts"
> directory in each stage of a cascading profile, thus moving the platform
> logic (linux vs hurd vs *bsd vs whatever) from the user and group files
> (which, in the original glep, would list info for all supported
> platforms) to the cascading profiles (default-linux, default-bsd/fbsd,
> etcetera).
> 

What about the libconf project ?  Can't we still put that to use somehow
(sorry, don't know the details anymore of it) to solve this issue?


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa