The current values might have been accurate at the time when the logic was introduced, but these days Arch is using the same ones as Debian. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Proof that I'm not making this up: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/83e66277ba6e08968496... meson.build | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index bad13c0c9d..09c3ab00f4 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -1614,20 +1614,18 @@ if not get_option('driver_qemu').disabled() qemu_group = 'wheel' else os_release = run_command('grep', '-E', '^ID(_LIKE)*=', '/etc/os-release', check: false).stdout() - if os_release.contains('arch') - qemu_user = 'nobody' - qemu_group = 'nobody' # RHEL and CentOS both have ID_LIKE=fedora, SLES has ID_LIKE=suse - elif (os_release.contains('fedora') or - os_release.contains('gentoo') or - os_release.contains('suse')) + if (os_release.contains('fedora') or + os_release.contains('gentoo') or + os_release.contains('suse')) qemu_user = 'qemu' qemu_group = 'qemu' # Ubuntu has ID_LIKE=debian so we need to handle it first elif os_release.contains('ubuntu') qemu_user = 'libvirt-qemu' qemu_group = 'kvm' - elif os_release.contains('debian') + elif (os_release.contains('arch') or + os_release.contains('debian')) qemu_user = 'libvirt-qemu' qemu_group = 'libvirt-qemu' else -- 2.40.1