On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 19:22 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Let it die =) I'm not going to apply the patch; it's there if someone > else decides that it's the least-bad solution to this problem. > > > On 1/20/20 6:57 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Why *isn't* some /var/lib/... possible here? > > It is, the question is how many backflips we should be doing to avoid > putting what is practically and factually a home directory in /home. I > have a few of these packages. I will echo ulm's sentiment that it's just > awful to put them all in > > /var/lib/user1-home > /var/lib/user2-home > ... > > rather than /home/user1 and /home/user2. > > That's also second-guessing the administrator, whose home directory > policies for e.g. backups very likely apply to the home directories I'm > creating. (Keep in mind that I'm only talking about exceptions for very > special packages that install a system user that will also be used by a > human or that stores per-user configuration. And the exception is only > for the keepdir file.) > > Home directories in /home were also allowed with user.eclass, which > means that we now hit a roadblock updating those accounts to GLEP81. >
Please don't conflate 'allowed' with 'nobody noticed it'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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