On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:25:45AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > GLEP 27 [1] seems pretty stagnant and I'm planning on giving it a bit > > of a refresh and actually implementing it. Now before I do this I'm > > not in love with the format in tree but I haven't decided on a format > > exactly in my head. So that being said, I'm sending this out looking > > for some opinions or ideas for my new GLEP. One of the obvious things > > I'll cover is all the ambiguity of the GLEP with regard to the data > > inside each of the files. > > > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html > One idea worth considering is making users just ebuilds with a > supporting eclass. While I'm hugely in favour of having consistent UID/GIDs with no conflicts over all Gentoo machines, I feel one of the reasons that the GLEP failed was that users required by ebuilds changed over ebuild versions, and the GLEP didn't seem to handle that well.
Cases I've seen in the tree: - username change (slocate -> locate) - homedir change - shell change -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
