Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D}

2018-03-31 Thread Michał Górny
W dniu sob, 31.03.2018 o godzinie 20∶46 +0100, użytkownik Andrey Utkin napisał: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:57:06AM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > > On 03/29/2018 11:28 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there any particula

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D}

2018-03-31 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:57:06AM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > On 03/29/2018 11:28 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > > > Is there any particular reason we need to remove them? > > > > > > > The PMS says that empty directories are undefi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Modification proposal for user/group creation when ROOT!="/"

2018-03-31 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:39:47 + (UTC) Farid BENAMROUCHE wrote: > interresting aproach. > this could work. however, i can see a few limitations: > - you must be root. Actually you don't if you add -r to unshare, which gives you what is sometimes called fakeroot. Obviously you still can't modif

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Modification proposal for user/group creation when ROOT!="/"

2018-03-31 Thread Farid BENAMROUCHE
interresting aproach. this could work. however, i can see a few limitations: - you must be root. - this is specific to linux as of today. - if you want to hide the mechanism, i don't see how without doing the same portage modifications as in my solution. but this is maybe worth investigating. my