+CC guix-devel, Jonathan Hi Liliana,
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prik...@gmail.com> writes: > Am Montag, dem 06.03.2023 um 20:13 -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: >> > Am Freitag, dem 17.02.2023 um 07:53 -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: >> > > Else an error rather than a warning when multiple same-name users >> > > are defined would be more appropriate, I think. >> > Guess what, it used to be a formatted message (i.e. an actual >> > error). However, that broke some configs as reported in [1], so I >> > demoted it to a warning. >> >> Interesting. I didn't know we were usefully (?) abusing duplicate >> users and group. > As far as I'm aware, we aren't. Even if such uses exist, they raise > said warning and probably cause more issues down the line, like with > your bug report. > >> Perhaps we should try to isolate the most common offenders >> (services?), fix them up, and then re-introduce the check, perhaps >> gradually (e.g. "in 6 months time, duplicated users or groups will >> become a configuration error"). > The only instance known to me (cups creating a duplicate lp group) was > fixed back in 2021. I'm starting a new discussion about it on guix-devel with the hope we can better our understanding of which configurations would be broken if 8488f45b6e05d646224cc2b410497ddf9864c612 was re-instated, which seems like a good idea to me? -- Thanks, Maxim