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Date:      Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:23:16 +0200
From:      Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ports/116448: devel/dbus intolerent of existing 556 GID
Message-ID:  <1190208196.33961.22.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20070919132046.GA74778@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien p=ED=B9e v st 19. 09. 2007 v 06:20 -0700:

> I'm curious - why doesn't dbus then just use 'pw' to create the group
> with an unspecified GID like the svn port does?  Why was this so
> anonying?  I was trying to build evolution-exchange before going to work
> - and of course the build broke 1/2 thru.  Which I didn't notice until I
> got home.

Because it's kinda hard to distribute binary packages, if the UID/GIDs
on files the package extracts is unpredictable.

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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>

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