-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Per an discussion in IRC about removal of user or groups when purging packages, I though of asking for comments about a proposal of updating the policy.
Basically the idea is that, if a package is creating an user or an group, that is dynamically allocated, then the package may not remove that user/group when purging the package. The reason is that, first, for dynamically allocated user/groups, more than one package might use/create the same user/group. Second, the package in question might create files using that user/group during it's execution. Third, recreating the user/group later might not result in the same ID (I assume at least). For static allocated user/groups, I don't think it's a much of a problem to remove the user/group, as only one package is going to create that user/group, and it will always have the same ID. What do you think? - -- /Carl Fürstenberg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh3eOIACgkQPJieVlqrawLZQgCfdTkXZK6WPL0LP/CvnDy09FOj hZ8AnA2KXvYJvPserW2E5cRe7epXfGKA =1uQr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
