Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 1/18/20 1:10 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> 
>> Should option (3) be viable, or do I go back to the drawing board?
> 
> Chances are that /home is site specific, e.g. with a special backup
> policy, or shared between many hosts via NFS. So IMHO /home is off
> limits for the package manager.
> 

We don't actually install anything there except the keepdir file, which
is why this used to work with user.eclass. If someone later logs in as
"amavis" and creates some configuration in $HOME, then that stuff is
subject to your backup/sharing policy just like any other user data.

I could always just use /home/amavis as $HOME and un-keepdir that
location. We don't really care if the directory exists, until/unless
someone logs in and starts adding configuration, so that's semantically
correct. No permissions problems and no QA warnings either.

But now users have to follow one more step (create /home/amavis) when
setting up amavisd-new. Is the QA check really assuring a quality user
experience here?