From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:16:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170129121630.4af1753c.mgorny@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22669.48621.24354.62011@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:03:25 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
> > [...] sys-user/echo [...]
>
> [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.]
>
> Users and groups aren't packages, so IMHO packages and *DEPEND
> variables shouldn't be abused for things like that. This has been
> discussed in bug 53269 previously.
>
> IMHO the way to go is to add proper variables in the next EAPI, like
> the EUSERS and EGROUPS proposed (and approved) in GLEP 27.
Don't forget to introduce a properly convoluted way of expressing
conditionals on USE flags etc. ;-)
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-27 17:54 [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-27 18:19 ` Alexis Ballier
2017-01-27 18:52 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-27 19:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-27 19:53 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-27 20:09 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-27 21:23 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-28 3:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-01-28 2:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Patrick McLean
2017-01-28 3:20 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-28 4:21 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-29 1:56 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 2:22 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-29 2:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 2:54 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 3:23 ` Gordon Pettey
2017-01-29 3:36 ` M. J. Everitt
2017-01-29 3:42 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 10:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-01-29 11:16 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2017-01-29 17:19 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 3:05 ` M. J. Everitt
2017-01-29 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-29 17:05 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 17:22 ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-29 19:31 ` james
2017-01-29 22:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-29 22:20 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 22:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-29 23:04 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-30 14:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-01-30 16:29 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-30 18:05 ` Patrick McLean
2017-01-30 18:22 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-30 18:43 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-02-03 14:51 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2017-02-03 19:29 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-02-04 8:50 ` Christopher Head
2017-02-04 15:02 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-02-04 18:03 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-01-28 11:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " James Le Cuirot
2017-01-28 22:54 ` Patrick McLean
2017-01-28 18:13 ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-28 19:32 ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-28 20:34 ` Rich Freeman
2017-01-28 21:29 ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-29 17:16 ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-29 17:34 ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-27 19:45 ` Gregory Woodbury
2017-01-28 11:32 ` Tom H
2017-01-27 21:15 ` Michał Górny
2017-01-28 0:10 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 22:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-01-29 23:34 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-01-29 23:45 ` Michael Orlitzky
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