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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3] glep-0081: User and group management via dedicated packages
From:       Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2019-06-22 17:34:35
Message-ID: 20190622173435.GB12825 () undo-autkin
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:53:46AM -0400, Brian Evans wrote:
> What significance will such numbers have when a daemon uses a new
> UID/GID and really doesn't care what it is?  Why do we have to go
> through the effort of assigning fixed IDs at random?

One reason not mentioned by mjo: this paves the way to resolution of
very old frustrating problem with user/group creation when
cross-compiling entire system from scratch.

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/541406

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