On 1/4/21 11:45 AM, James Cloos wrote:
"RHJ" == Robin H Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> writes:
RHJ> The best I can come up with at the moment, is that any packaging should
RHJ> detect if there are user modifications, and provide control to users
RHJ> based on that fact.
Exactly. Akin to etc-update.
We could implement this with something like an /etc/users.d directory
that would be populated with entries by either the admin or package
manager with CONFIG_PROTECT enabled. Then the system database would be
updated by running something like "users-update" (cf. env-update). The
essential problem that we need to work around is that e.g. /etc/passwd
is "owned" by multiple system packages.
I think this would accomplish what you and Robin are talking about, but
it wouldn't solve whissi's problem since it's still a Gentoo-specific
solution.
