From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev+bounces-79391-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> 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 C56F4139085 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 716571418A; Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 268162340BF for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD61B3413A6; Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:16:30 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= <mgorny@gentoo.org> To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management Message-ID: <20170129121630.4af1753c.mgorny@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <22669.48621.24354.62011@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <9558d41c-17c0-4bbd-e2f8-02575c6d0ecd@gentoo.org> <CAGfcS_=biacBM0xsy0GX3_X0mOAd3BdgHDXYorSBkmwsoQ9sgQ@mail.gmail.com> <ee24eb83-4430-40ff-07d0-577bc188457d@gentoo.org> <CAGfcS_=V+xmBU+fFbMQBH39E9-y9CUaZt9Bok80Wg6_jboHcbQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170127183752.500f8910@patrickm> <CAGfcS_kcXOa+NC5Eh_qGb95uEaaKsarjsK92jOuTpUB=P5sXxg@mail.gmail.com> <4a8204d4-929e-6260-957a-dcf8f82f4b24@gentoo.org> <CAGfcS_nVnb-USUruY3u7OfbkiBqKg=uPrHBZkRzFc4jmeA6k_Q@mail.gmail.com> <6bac1312-60f9-3ce1-542b-0635b4a37c6b@gentoo.org> <CAHY5Medwn0EvA--=_MhDKDo0n+rLwXQeWUzN_n_T4fL34DNLow@mail.gmail.com> <4ebf0ddd-c4b0-31ac-a783-efa95f9d6be0@gentoo.org> <22669.48621.24354.62011@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/6S4.47yjj3XCNjxSy_/vIPq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a078c619-7ed9-4d3e-9457-e23c3136d124 X-Archives-Hash: b4b066a281ba34df3215c3032886c950 --Sig_/6S4.47yjj3XCNjxSy_/vIPq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 11:03:25 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: =20 >=20 > > [...] sys-user/echo [...] =20 >=20 > [Replying to a random message in this thread, as I have some backlog.] >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. ;-) --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> --Sig_/6S4.47yjj3XCNjxSy_/vIPq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEEbbsHzE8NrQbqCv5BsHoa6u+0Rk4FAliNzw5fFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDZE QkIwN0NDNEYwREFEMDZFQTBBRkU0MUIwN0ExQUVBRUZCNDQ2NEUACgkQsHoa6u+0 Rk7Xdw/+K+CIdPVGMdZCOlTV3lWMFd79HNBhI7PE4LPni9qazFb8zu9L3F35U2DV uCLY1uYI1Zz9MNcdK3owOhCJ42ouQ0IajK3fg64atwAAFq69fnfNYGqhhNXGnZ6W M3PJ8AvnSipKmUdfh2eMHL4PP7Gi89acvs+T2aMDtD/qoA072zQYkRkrXj2fqg/S 0RyTvjmNodLDIMxJmAGJsvcZ9mhfXAGS8QtU4r4VZEeE0lK4kaMpgewKgBVfWO7V 0popajaiiDmGO/DziGjCkZHhMVzpBG4bN7hFGSf2X/HG9zPwHUKxFvVmKMvOUY2i F5MyuFvQZsEiFIzE7l+VZslnOM3fOH53dK+JmbVXFeLe0jfgccCtxFN7J/X/KL2F WALzQj5dYUuXY7WJv6dwLJp/M+l6FpKq6Ja/Cf1Qo2iRpfQ6yvvgduY7rkidYYwx An4SkJXfGZWTaLMsak0VI7cZTUIg78s5cxR1Jj7ULEQeAqaCBUnS9c6IdbWd6mDr 8LMdPTp/nNZ7FejXfOS2LL01FMADaFJ1S0k2S1tiue/Mw8V4HwCs/QmjJ1vz+VpJ EJfBDWWTasnLKOBxzczhdAI1JFYGNTsMym0i5YiBvnrKIr2hIrNIl4Kzo5iJyWEY QXOb2sY69lEfawgDTp6SmK/InkCBHi2Jfn51UA+ZXbuJl/weKN8= =4PBv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6S4.47yjj3XCNjxSy_/vIPq--