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Some graphical greeters, such as gtkgreet and wlgreet, store various things in their home directory, such as the mesa shader cache. Having a home directory also doesn't hurt for greeters that don't make use of it. As an example, greeters using Wayland compositors will attempt to cache shaders in the $HOME/.cache/mesa_shader_cache directory. Also, greetd explicitly is designed to not really care about the greeter in use, so it doesn't make sense to NOT have a home directory for the greeter: the lack of one is making an assumption about the greeter run by greetd and serves little purpose (having an extra empty directory for greeters not making use of a home directory doesn't hurt). With regard to other distros, Debian also creates a home directory for their greetd user[1][2], as does Fedora[3]. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/greetd/-/blob/master/debian/greetd.postinst?ref_type=heads#L6 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/greetd/-/blob/master/debian/greetd.postinst?ref_type=heads#L12-13 [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/greetd/blob/rawhide/f/greetd.sysusers Signed-off-by: Rahul Sandhu <nvraxn@gmail.com> Part-of: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/44139 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/44139 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>