On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:25 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote:
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> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Alec Warner wrote:
>
> > - If Gentoo adds an acct-user/foo user, and that user already exists
> > on my system with the wrong UID: the eclass dies[0].
>
> I don't think that's correct. The eclass will just use
> "UM" == Ulrich Mueller writes:
UM> Also, why would one allocate UIDs in the 500..999 range (1000 is fine,
UM> actually)? Gentoo always had UID_MIN=1000 and SYS_UID_MAX=999.
why do you thing gentoo is everyone's first or only dist on their
network?
or even on any given box?
forcing
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 11:06:36AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 09:36:32AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> >> 1/ Static allocation does not really solve a problem. Not really not
> >> nowadays
> >> 2/ We cant keep adding new IDs to a distribution as new software gets
> >>
On Mon, 2021-11-29 at 14:44 +0100, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't really use any of these anymore, so I'd love for someone else to
> maintain them:
>
> dev-python/pockets
> dev-python/pycodestyle
> dev-python/pynacl
>
> Pockets has no revdeps, so ditching it entirely is also an
Hi!
I don't really use any of these anymore, so I'd love for someone else to
maintain them:
dev-python/pockets
dev-python/pycodestyle
dev-python/pynacl
Pockets has no revdeps, so ditching it entirely is also an option.
Pycodestyle is heavily intertwined with autopep8 and friends, so it
might
> Honestly, I think this is pretty on-topic for gentoo-dev given a lot of us
> are quite interested in this.
^ this
> - I'm not sure why you would need virtual/toolchain or virtual/binutils
> unless it's just for usage within bootstrapping scripts? Seems more like
> you could just remove gcc from
On Mon, 2021-11-29 at 05:05 +, Sam James wrote:
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> What I wish we had done (and there's still time to do, albeit belated --
> it's still useful for the remaining big bits like Apache and nginx) is
> write a news item explaining the implications and linked to a page
> like
Starting with kernel >= v5.7 the build system can override this
variable by passing LLVM=1 [1], but for older kernels or in
cases where the LLVM toolchain is setup directly via portage,
CC should be respected to avoid situations like building the
kernel with clang but the headers with gcc.
[1]
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Alec Warner wrote:
> - If Gentoo adds an acct-user/foo user, and that user already exists
> on my system with the wrong UID: the eclass dies[0].
I don't think that's correct. The eclass will just use the already
existing UID then (except for the very few acct-user
