On 18-07-2023 11:42:39 +0300, Зураб Квачадзе wrote: > How do we handle this case, then. > Imagine we have a leaf package acct-user/foo, which has a reserved UID of 123. > It gets last rited and its entry is removed from uid-gid.txt. After a while > appears a new package acct-user/bar, which takes the 123 UID. Then a user, say > Bob, updates their system, which haven't been updated for some time. What if > they still have acct-user/foo, when acct-user/bar with the same UID is > installed? Should we even care about such cases?
IMO we should, thus 123 should not be removed from uid-gid.txt, and instead be marked as reserved or something with a date. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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