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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Release imminent!
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:50:57 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> >> If --build-users-group is not given explicitly, check for the group
>> >> nixbld and use it if it exists.
>> I=E2=80=99m not sure if we want to automatically use a given group name.=
  What
>> if that name was used for something else on this machine?  Granted, it=
=E2=80=99s
>> unlikely, but it=E2=80=99s not completely impossible either.
>
> In that case, the user would have to give the builder group explicitly=20
> anyway.

Yes, but if they don=E2=80=99t, it=E2=80=99ll end up using real users, whic=
h could be a
bad idea.

Note that currently, when --build-users-group is omitted and the daemon
runs as root, a warning is emitted.

Ludo=E2=80=99.