On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 17:18 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2021-01-04 16:55, David Seifert wrote: > > This is what we agree on. We need an escape hatch, and it needs to be > > off by default. Any sysadmin overriding it gets to keep the pieces, but > > they need to have that option. > > See Mike's example again. > > In last chapter of Gentoo's handbook (Finalization) we recommend user to > call 'usermod' to put themselves into important groups like wheel or > portage. > > Now guess what's happening? Whenever acct-user/portage will get > remerged, PM will remove that user from portage group (luckily groups > like wheel don't have users...).
It must be a bug in your version of the eclass. I've just reemerged acct-group/wheel and to *my great surprise* I'm still there. How unexpected! -- Best regards, Michał Górny