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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management
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On 01/27/2017 01:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> 
> This doesn't really seem like a problem though.  Just have a table
> somewhere (wiki?) to track who is using what UID/GID and encode those
> defaults into the ebuild that creates those users.
> 

It should be possible to have two different users with the same UID in
the tree, just like we can have two different packages that install the
same file. Eventually somebody will notice a file collision, and then we
add a blocker per usual.