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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:53:14 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] support/scripts/mkusers: allow option
 for system uid/gid
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Hello,

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:29:24 +0200
Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, this was touched upon (both points), see [1].
> 
> System users exist as concept on all distros an observable effects are for
> ex journald spawning a separate logging stream.

Right, thanks for the additional feedback.

> So no, it's not just cosmetics, and yes I'd make system user the default.

Agreed.

Did you compare your implementation with the one proposed by Stephan
earlier ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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