Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

2020-01-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:56:48PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 1/20/20 11:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository. > > That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that > > install them. > What benefit is t

Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

2020-01-20 Thread Joonas Niilola
On 1/20/20 6:57 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > as I recall I was one of the folks who suggested that uid-gid.txt should > go in the api repository, but after thinking about it more and seeing it > in practice, I see the error of my ways on this. ;-) What's wrong with it? > > Imo a better f

Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

2020-01-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 1/20/20 11:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > Imo a better fit is the metadata directory in the ebuild repository. > That way you can add users/groups along with the acct-* packages that > install them. What benefit is there to syncing that file to everyone's machines?

Re: [gentoo-dev] moving uid-gid.txt to metadata

2020-01-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, William Hubbs wrote: > as I recall I was one of the folks who suggested that uid-gid.txt should > go in the api repository, but after thinking about it more and seeing it > in practice, I see the error of my ways on this. ;-) > Imo a better fit is the metadata directory