On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 8:32 PM Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > In short: It was a very bad decision that acct-* stuff is *changing* > existing stuff. This must be turned of *by default*. Maybe provide a > setting a user can put into make.conf to opt into current, still new, > behavior but by default, a package should never ever make changes to > *existing* user (unless it knows for sure it was the only source > creating that user and nothing was changed since creation which isn't > easy to track).
I think it would make sense to add some eclass variables that would turn user.eclass functions into no-ops. I don't agree that this should be happen by default. I suspect the majority of users do not wish to manage system users/groups themselves.
