On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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.
FYI, how Debian and Fedora do it: Debian policy https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.2.2 Debian users https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/cjwatson/base-passwd.git/plain/passwd.master Debian groups https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/cjwatson/base-passwd.git/plain/group.master Fedora users and groups https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/setup.git/plain/uidgid