From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C4CB138350 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4AF1E08F6; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FC1AE08F2 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15 (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ulm) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8315234E1BB; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:10:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: Michael Orlitzky Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP81 and /home In-Reply-To: <825bd707-faa2-f956-edbb-a11a8d82296b@gentoo.org> (Michael Orlitzky's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2020 12:51:50 -0500") References: <825bd707-faa2-f956-edbb-a11a8d82296b@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:10:36 +0100 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 390e2438-1891-421a-ba4b-40685d020664 X-Archives-Hash: f0b87051018b61c746164f07a536845f >>>>> 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