>>>>> 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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