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

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 1/20/20 1:01 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> 
> It's just awful to have a one user at second level (like /home/amavis)
> when all others are at third level (like /home/staff/joe).
> 

Finally an honest argument =)

I agree. But all we're doing is choosing the default here. GLEP81 lets
the user override the home directory in those rare cases to put it under
/home/guests. For everyone else, you get

  /home/user1
  /home/user2
  /home/user3
  /home/user4

instead of

  /home/user1
  /home/user2
  /var/lib/user3/home
  /home/user4

I think it's weird that my bash_history winds up under /var/lib.


> Besides, nothing guarantees that your username under /home won't collide
> with an existing subdirectory name. 

You can make the same argument about /var/lib. And keep in mind that we
already have "collisions" for $HOME every time someone switches from
user.eclass to a GLEP81 user. The risk for /home is no greater than
anywhere else, and we've deemed that risk acceptable, whatever it is.