On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 10:01 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > 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)?
To be honest, I had mixed feelings about this. I guess I can remove it, and expect that we'll CI it properly before we phase out the old method. > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. > > s/http/&s/ > Sounds like vim templates need to be updated. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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