From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DB87138334 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD435E09E1; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 825FEE09DC for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thinkpad.fritz.box (unknown [IPv6:2001:4060:c005:3f00:9491:b020:96bd:fae]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: soap) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 51D6134D392; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <139dd6ae99d13ddf68aac96c65120d9870620ef0.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] nix and guix GID/UID assignments From: David Seifert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:24:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20191124203504.74937eea@sf> References: <20191124124616.691759-1-slyfox@gentoo.org> <20191124132356.5e1021bf@sf> <20191124203504.74937eea@sf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1c3fcc7e-8cfd-4f14-8081-3c25602f781b X-Archives-Hash: e6b3f0c3a04b7fa92ada1fedd2b7018c On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 20:35 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:19:36 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller 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.