Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] nix and guix GID/UID assignments

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 20:35 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:19:36 +0100
> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > > > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:  
> > > I interpreted 'reserved' as 'free to use' on
> > >     
> > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/UID_GID_Assignment
> > > Can you tweak it to someting other than 'reserved' so it would be
> > > clear?  
> > 
> > That's what the "Notes" column was intended for.
> > 
> > > I'll use 60001 .. 60999 / 61001 .. 61999. Is it free though?
> > > '60001..65533' claims to also be 'reserved' as well.  
> > 
> > Debian is also using the range above 60000 for allocations that
> > won't
> > fit into the low range. Theoretically, there is some overlap with
> > systemd dynamic users (61184..65519), but IIUC assigning other UIDs
> > in
> > that range isn't a problem, as long as there are enough free IDs
> > left.
> > 
> > Another question, the above are about 2000 users and 2000 groups.
> > Does that imply that we will eventually end up with 4000 packages
> > in acct-{user,group}?
> 
> Should be 2000 users, 2 groups. Worst case it's 2002 packages, yes.
> 

For a package manager that likely only 3 Gentoo users in the world use?
I don't consider that particularly helpful, and am very much inclined
to oppose that.