On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:23 PM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2021, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > >> Mh - so the obvious first feature request for the script is to also > >> output Free UID+GID pairs. Counting them manually in your screenshot > >> I get 36. > >> > >> That's not a whole lot; just 7% of 500. > > > The output was abbreviated. Here is the full output for entries where > > both ids are FREE. > > Still, it's not an infinite resource, and maybe we shouldn't waste a > pair if only one of UID or GID is needed?
It's possible that a package might require both a UID and a GID at some point in the future. If we actually start running out of low-numbered ids, we could start mixing them at that point; having them match is really just a cosmetic thing. Or we could always just expand the permissible range.
