[arch-general] list of user/group ids supplied by official packages

[Troy Engel]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:50 AM, member graysky <graysky at archlinux.us> wrote:
> Is there a list of user/group IDs that official packages from [core]
> [extra] and [community] provide?  I wish to insure that the user/group
> id in an AUR package I provide[1] does not conflict a user created by
> an official package.  I can grep for 'useradd' in my abs tree and
> parse through the resulting 137 lines but there must be a better way.
> Thanks.

There's a wiki-based effort to track them here:

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database

A valiant initiative, I'll survey my system(s) and see if I can
contribute anything...

-te