On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:07 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Mar 24 juillet 2007 21:34, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit : > > > 2) Work with another distro to share the range of static uids. > > > > What do people think of this? Will it cause pain for too many sites? > > Is it an acceptable cost to avoid having to debate dynamic vs static > > uids for every package review in the future? > > +1 for finding interested contacts in other distros and just submit a > request to the LSB to have the static range expanded > > You have to realise static UID scarcity is a big reason UIDs vary from > distro to distro - given UID shortage each distro priorises the > packages it cares most about and as a result the attribution choices > vary. > > With a non-scarce range new UIDs and (and later historical UIDs) could > just nicely converge. With 4 billion UIDs claiming UIDs are a scarce resource is a bit excessive. It's just that nobody has the courage to break with the past and bump up the reserved UID space or even just move to a more creative approaches. Simo. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
