On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > My first impression is that any package that doesn't care > about its UID should default to "first available", but if that causes > problems, then that's exactly the sort of use case I'm looking for. >
The ones I listed before were filesystems shared by multiple hosts, such as with nfs, containers, and chroots. Granted, there are ways to deal with this sort of thing, but if you want to share your /var/www across a bunch of apache servers it would be nice if they all had the same UID for apache. -- Rich
