Re: Dropping awk?

[Marco d'Itri]

On May 13, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote:

systemd's sysuser support is only apparently slightly better than
adduser (in that it is declarative), otherwise it feels rather
underwhelming in the package management context. It does not solve being
able to use such users in .deb files w/o maintainer scripts, it currently

This is much less of an issue that it used to be, because nowadays the

See systemd.exec(5) for details.

/{etc,run,var/*}/$NAME directories can be created most of the times on demand by systemd with the right permissions, by using the ConfigurationDirectory, StateDirectory, etc... directives.

also uses maintainer scripts for its normal operation (you just do not
write them explicitly),

I suppose that you could implement support for calling systemd-sysusers directly in dpkg, if you think it is needed.

it does not solve bootstrapping issues, does

What do you mean here?

not support setting a system-wide policy on whether to remove the
users/groups on package purge, etc.

I think that this could be implemented in systemd-sysusers, if somebody cares enough to do it.

--
ciao,
Marco

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