All, I want to discuss why we ban -1 as the ACCT_USER_ID and ACCT_GROUP_ID setting for all acct-user and acct-group packages in ::gentoo.
Here are my thoughts about it. - As Gordon pointed out, it isn't necessary for us to care about UIDS/GIDS most of the time. - I realize that our settings are suggestions, but the values we can suggest are not infinite. We have run out once, and it is only a matter of time until we do again. - If an end user needs to care about the UID/GID, they can easily override the settings in make.conf. In short, I don't think we should be forcing maintainers to pick a specific UID/GID for every package that needs a user/group. Most of the time they can set ACCT_USER_ID and ACCT_GROUP_ID to -1. Thoughts? In particular, I want to hear from folks who disagree with me about using -1 in the main tree for most packages. Thanks, William
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
