Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] User and group management via dedicated packages

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 09:28 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a reiteration (or well, rewrite) of mjo's earlier work [1].  I've
> made it into more GLEP-ish form, removed inline code samples which
> belong in implementation part and did some changes.
> 
> The main change from the earlier proposal is that we are extremely
> careful not to break stuff.  Packages only create users/groups if they
> don't exist, they do not modify existing accounts.  Users and groups are
> not removed at all.  The text included below.
> 
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GLEP:User_packages
> 

FTR, I've placed my initial code in [1].  It's neither complete, nor
final design.  I have to address a number of old bugs for user.eclass
first.

[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/12129

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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