>>>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> I've been working on the user packages GLEP that I started and then
> forgot about sometime at the beginning of the year. I'm trying to finish
> up the reference implementation.

> When it comes to removing users, everyone's suggestions were along the
> same lines:

>   1a. If you try to uninstall a user package, it should die(), because
>       calling userdel can be a security risk if the user still owns
>       files.

This rather sounds like a case for package manager support with
some property like RESTRICT="uninstall".

Ulrich

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