On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 13:07 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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.
Most importantly, it doesn't resolve the core issue of 'we need to update home before merging reverse dependencies'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
