Hi, On 2021/12/01 03:32, William Hubbs wrote: > This is the part of this that I don't understand. If we aren't enforcing > an ID, why do we care which ID to try first? It seems to be an > unnecessary step since users can pick the IDs they want by putting > settings in make.conf.
Because when running clusters of hosts it's useful to have the UIDs for "system" users match. Yes, I know this won't match in a multi-distro setup, but at least for those of us with clusters consisting only of Gentoo hosts it will *usually* match. Changing these are possible, but a nuisance, so having it "just work" for the usual case is great IMHO. If I'm not mistaken there is a setting to REQUIRE the ID, and that could even be set from make.conf, or env/ so for those packages that we care about that (eg, mailman running on top of glusterfs) we use that. Kind Regards, Jaco
