From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>,
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] User and group management via dedicated packages
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 10:01:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w6g7ea9bsey.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fae3623e5443d971055ddba136ca81d98cd7caf9.camel@gentoo.org> ("Michał Górny"'s message of "Wed, 29 May 2019 09:28:15 +0200")
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>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> User/group name/identifier collision detection
> ----------------------------------------------
> The user/group packages can install additional files in subdirectories
> of ``/var/lib`` indicating their respective names and identifiers.
> This ensures that if two packages ever happen to collide, the package
> manager's collision detection mechanism will trigger.
I wonder why that would be needed. It won't catch collisions with users
created by the system administrator. Collisions between packages could
certainly be prevented without littering the file system, e.g., by
scanning ebuilds in that category (by repoman, or CI)?
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
s/http/&s/
Ulrich
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-29 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-29 7:28 [gentoo-dev] [pre-GLEP] User and group management via dedicated packages Michał Górny
2019-05-29 8:01 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2019-05-29 10:15 ` Michał Górny
2019-05-29 15:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-05-29 9:50 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-05-29 10:25 ` Michał Górny
2019-05-29 15:35 ` Robin H. Johnson
2019-05-29 16:01 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-05-31 7:48 ` Jaco Kroon
2019-05-29 16:40 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-05-29 17:41 ` Michał Górny
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