On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:36:01AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:32:08PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>FWIW I hate it, too, anyone here around with other feelings for that?
>>Maybe we're all "that guy" ;)
>
>Yes, I am *also* that guy.
>
>Can't we just have a Fedora project registry of assigned numbers and stick
>to it?
Fact is: fedora-usermgmt solves a (nitch) problem, regardless of
whether folks agree with it's implementation.
Imo, maintainers of epel packages, should be free to use it, if they
wish. It would be inappropriate, imo, to implement a blanket "no
fedora-usermngt" policy in epel, unless, of course, no maintainer for it
can be found for epel.
Please no, it requires the admin's attention to setup some random
space in his user uid/gid space, and if he misses it (who really cares
about yet another package pulled in by yum install foo) or forgets
this setup he runs into possible uid/gid conflcits between packages
and users. We don't want that for Fedora and even less for RHEL.
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