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acct-* packages without consumers

Open juippis opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

We currently have acct-user/plex and acct-group/plex without revdeps (removed due to python-2), and ideally we'd like to free these GID/UIDs back to use right? Now I wonder if there are more unused acct-* packages. Hence it would be great if *pkgcheck * would identify those for us.

I'd like to invite @mgorny to share your opinions on this subject - should those IDs be released, or kept?

juippis avatar Feb 10 '21 07:02 juippis

They should be kept. The whole purpose of predictable IDs is to have them predictable, and collisions make that impossible. There's explicit tag for removed users/groups in uid-gid.txt.

mgorny avatar Feb 10 '21 08:02 mgorny

This is yet another feature request that requires a revdeps cache (https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/issues/285) in order to be sanely implemented.

radhermit avatar Feb 13 '21 20:02 radhermit

@mgorny Okay, so that's for ::gentoo. This should be useful for GURU and overlays though, right?

thesamesam avatar Feb 13 '21 23:02 thesamesam