On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 5:29 PM Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 8/14/19 5:14 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691478
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
> > ---
> >  eclass/acct-user.eclass | 5 +++++
>
> This is a symptom of another problem. The man user claims /usr/share/man
> as its home directory, and insists on changing its permissions to
> root:root 0755. Why? If the default homedir and owner will work, they
> should be used. We're going to have a mountain of shit on our hands if
> acct-user packages start claiming random directories as their homes and
> reset the permissions/ownership on them randomly.
>
> (If the "man" user really reads things from e.g. $HOME/man5/ebuild.5,
> I'll eat my foot.)
>

Agreed. Please file a bug about this.

>