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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] nix and guix GID/UID assignments
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:24:08 +0100
David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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'll avoid debating you scientific method of deriving that number.
What is your threshold? 10 users? 1000 users? 100000 users?
> I don't consider that particularly helpful, and am very much inclined
> to oppose that.
I'm fine with current use of user.eclass if QA grants nix and guix an
exception to use user.eclass indefinitely instead of GLEP-81 layout.
--
Sergei