On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621833 and its merged > bugs are a discussion about changing or setting the policy on this. > The consensus is that packages should never remove the users they > create.
I tend to think it should be fine for packages to delete files/dirs/users that "belong" to the package. The problem occurs when data that "belongs" to the sysadmin (and not to the package; website data, databases, email queues etc) is stored in directories specific to the package and with filesystem ownership set to the user created by the package, rather than a filesystem path and user chosen, created and managed by the sysadmin. It would be very nice if we could separate these two cases; as a side effect, this would solve this purging users problem. That said, I think idea is impossible to do at present. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6HpOcJ=snxfyu-dvi34mrtnt9wuonuqxaearxbrziv...@mail.gmail.com
