Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 19:23 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:48:52PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > Okay this whole line of thought is total crackrock. Why do we need to
> > make value judgements over what packages deserve a fixed ID, and what
> > doesn't? If we're going to do fixed IDs at all, there's *no* reason we
> 
> Because there's no important reason to have a fixed UID if no files are
> owned.

Other than reducing the number of dynamically assigned IDs out in the
wild that can bite us in the ass in the future.

We can't eliminate dynamic IDs, but I believe minimizing their usage is
in our best interests.
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