On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 02:57:39PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 2021-11-28 11:06:36, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > While the rationale for static allocation that made it into GLEP 81 [1] > > is rather weak, several people had argued in favour of it on the mailing > > list [2]. > > > > We don't even do static allocation. The UIDs and GIDs in the ebuilds > are suggestions, meant to benefit the people who will benefit from > them, and be ignored by everyone else. > > There are a few exceptional cases where a user or group needs a > specific identifier; but those were always statically allocated and > nothing has changed in that regard.
Doesn't the emerge fail if a different user with ACCT_USER_ID already exists on the system (unless ACCT_USER_ID is set to -1, which is forbidden by qa policy)? If that's the case I don't see how we aren't doing static allocation. William
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