Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] allow acct-user home directories in /home

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 1/20/20 2:02 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 
>>   install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.
> 
> Nope. As you've been told, /home is site specific and can be setup in
> multiple ways that are incompatible with the package manager installing
> things there (the only exception being baselayout creating the directory
> itself).

I haven't been given a single technical reason why using /home would
cause a problem. What specific incompatibilities are you talking about?


> Quoting FHS-3.0 again:
> 
> | On large systems (especially when the /home directories are shared
> | amongst many hosts using NFS) it is useful to subdivide user home
> | directories. Subdivision may be accomplished by using subdirectories
> | such as /home/staff, /home/guests, /home/students, etc.
> 
> So, how are you going to detect if such a scheme is used on the system,
> and in which subdirectory the amavis user should be placed?

The same way we detect that scheme before setting a home directory to
/var/lib/whatever, which you may notice, is not under /home/guests or
anything like that. Does this cause a real technical problem, or is it
just more FUD?


> I also wonder why you would send this patch, when there wasn't a single
> voice supporting your proposition in the other thread and several
> opposing ones.

I don't want to just complain without offering a solution.

No one has pointed out any problems with it.

This stuff is already in /home, and I'd like to get off user.eclass
without introducing a new QA warning for a keepdir file.