Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> It's easily possible to recreate /etc/passwd from scratch if the uids are > always specified in <user-account>s and thus /etc/passwd would not need to > be persistent state anymore. Right now everything from /etc/passwd except > the uid and the comment is already specified in <user-account>. > > So Guix can indeed simply do away with the persistent state of > /etc/passwd--that's why I suggested specifying the uids in the first place. I don’t think it can: UID/GID allocation is stateful by nature because you don’t want to reuse a recently-used ID right away. See the allocation strategy in (gnu build accounts). Ludo’.
