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["Andraž \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Matthew Clark wrote :

> 
> That's a pretty good idea.  I'd also like to see a date inside the
> patch, or perhaps as part of the filename.  Perhaps require the comments
> inside the patch file to follow the same format as HISTORY files, and/or
> name the files SEQ-P-NAME-YYYYMMDD.diff.
> 
> I hadn't thought through it, though.  But I like your idea.
> 
> 

Why a date??? I thought about it BUT the date is already in the spell's
HISTORY entry so I don't see a real reason for it.

But IF it would go then it would be as a comment and not part of the name
reason being I don't want all the info coded in the name as that would
produce something like:

zbly-bsa-blt-bah-tea-hie-ied-diod-thiao.diff and so on
as more fields would get added.

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Also I'm thinking about rewamping our user/group handling as atm imho
it's just a hack. I'm thinking about writting a frontend to the useradd/pw
tools that would make it more friendly to porting to other platforms.

The thing I don't like about our current handling is that I can't define
anything BUT name and g/udi which is annoying. I'd basicaly like to be able to
define everything from name to shell with comments and so on.

I'd also like a clear definition from where onward are user G/UIDS.
I'd go with 500 for both but if someone else hase a better idea then please.

The only thing is I'd like to have BOTH gid and uid start at the same number.

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