On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > You don't really have to care what UID/GID is assigned, because each > user/group will only be created once and referenced by name (as $PN). By > default, we could pick the first available UID in most packages.
I might be not following correctly, but due to how filesystems/etc work it is probably desirable to have consistent UID/GIDs as much as reasonably possible. Things like NFS, chroots, containers, and so on can be a bit simpler if these are consistent, because they involve one system having visibility into a filesystem hosted on another, and usually in these cases the UID/GID is what is kept constant, not the name. (IMO UID/GID namespace is one of those areas where Linux/POSIX/etc has some weaknesses.) This doesn't really seem like a problem though. Just have a table somewhere (wiki?) to track who is using what UID/GID and encode those defaults into the ebuild that creates those users. Overall I like your proposal. -- Rich
