On 2020-02-14 16:38, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Could you just explain please? I’m not inclined to read through the > handbook and rebuild a system to guess what this horrible breakage might > be.
My point is, that even the handbook tells user to modify groups. I.e. you should add your user to group X for being able to do Y... That's OK. That's normal. But if everything in Gentoo has migrated to acct-* stuff, these changes will get reverted once the user will re-emerge world including acct-* package or such a package will get updated for some reason. This is unexpected. Also, I hope nobody expects that every user using sudo for example needs to maintain an own acct-*/sudo fork in his/her overlay in future just because in Gentoo, you cannot use normal Linux tools like usermod anymore because your changes might get resetted during some upgrade. That's what currently might happen with the current implementation which tries to keep user/group state like described in package. Something you will only see in Gentoo and no other distribution. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5
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