On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 02:35 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Modifying an existing user is a bad default and makes Gentoo
> special because it is common for system administrators to make
> modifications to user (i.e. putting an user into another service's
> group to allow that user to access service in question) and it
> would be unexpected to see these changes reverted during normal
> world upgrade (which could break services).

Not modifying an existing user is a horrible default that has already
bricked one system (by removing /dev/null).  So, over my dead commit
access.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny



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