On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 2:27 PM William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 02:57:39PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> We don't even do static allocation.

> There are a few exceptional cases where a user or group needs a
> specific identifier; but those were always statically allocated and
> nothing has changed in that regard.

Doesn't the emerge fail if a different user with ACCT_USER_ID already exists on
the system (unless ACCT_USER_ID is set to -1, which is forbidden by qa policy)?

If that's the case I don't see how we aren't doing static allocation.

User PoV when I see a bunch of acct-* packages pop up in emerge @world updates:

A bunch of of acct-* ebuilds make claims for specific uid/gid for applications

that don't have a reason I can think of to be requiring a specific number, and

would never be used in a way (e.g. NFS-shared /etc) where the numeric

value actually matters.