New comment by ahesford on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/24812#issuecomment-693749172

Comment:
The latest push attempts to better accommodate NIS/LDAP directories; if the canonical target prefix is `/`, the `--prefix` option is omitted from `useradd`, `groupadd` and `usermod`, which means these utilities should refuse to create accounts that conflict with entries in the remote directories. When the target prefix is something other than the system root, the `--prefix` argument is used, which ignores NIS/LDAP and creates accounts in the local databases for that root. I believe this to be the most sane option because any assumptions about remote directories for an alternate root are bound to be problematic, and if the user is aware of an intent to configure special NSS behavior in the altroot, leaving packages unconfigured until the full environment is ready seems appropriate.