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This is quite ugly, but provides us with an avenue for moving distributions to define the "nobody" user properly without breaking legacy systems that us the name for other stuff. The idea is basically, that the distribution adopts the new definition of "nobody" (and thus recompiles systemd with it) and then touches /etc/systemd/dont-synthesize-nobody on legacy systems to turn off possibly conflicting synthesizing of the nobody name by systemd.
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