On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:52:57 +0200, Geert Stappers > <stapp...@stappers.nl> wrote: > >For what it is worth: I use `adduser` outside maintainer script. > > > >I think I'm not alone in that. > > Useradd has grown most of that functionality in the last two decades. > That leaves no space for adduser between useradd and sysusers. At > least not enouch space to waste any more life time on it.
From how you write, I have the impression that you might be frustrated, but I don't think it's useful to think of it in terms of "wasting life time". We cannot foresee the future, so we don't really know whether the tools we work on will be forever needed, or not. adduser has been useful to me for a long time, and I assume to you as well. The ecosystem moving away from it, or it not being needed in the future, does *not* mean you wasted your time on it. Tools are just tools, and can become obsolete. Having people with knownledge in the problem space is way more important than having any specific tool, so the time you invested in this was *not* wasted.
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