From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:10:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w6g5zh81vqb.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <825bd707-faa2-f956-edbb-a11a8d82296b@gentoo.org> (Michael Orlitzky's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2020 12:51:50 -0500")
>>>>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Where do we put amavis's home directory?
> [...]
> 3 /home/amavis also seems fine to me, except for the fact that it's a
> QA violation to install there.
> Note that we could always set system users' home directories to
> /home/whatever. It has only become a QA violation with GLEP81 because
> the eclass calls keepdir on the user's home directory.
> 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.
Your original idea of placing it somewhere under /var/lib sounds just
right.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-18 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 17:51 [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-18 18:10 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2020-01-18 23:38 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 0:21 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 2:50 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 11:29 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 15:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 17:42 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 18:37 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:02 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 19:27 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:47 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-19 21:00 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 22:09 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-20 1:20 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-20 1:51 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-20 2:52 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-20 3:16 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-20 3:40 ` Rich Freeman
2020-01-20 3:57 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:37 ` Robin H. Johnson
2020-01-19 19:19 ` Alec Warner
2020-01-19 19:28 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-19 19:32 ` Alec Warner
2020-01-19 20:44 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-18 19:03 ` Alec Warner
2020-01-18 20:16 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-01-18 19:08 ` Michał Górny
2020-01-18 19:44 ` Michael Orlitzky
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