Hello, My 2c:
In short +1! Thompson, David writes: > Currently, removing a user account from the users list in an OS config > does not remove the user account from a system when 'guix system > reconfigure' is run. I think that user accounts not specified in the > user accounts list should be invalidated and that /etc/passwd and > other files be fully rebuilt each time. In other words, I want a > stateless /etc/passwd, not a stateful one. I would love this functionality: it feels intuitive for a functional package manager. > As Mark brought up on IRC, this proposed change in behavior may very > well surprise and frustrate another subset of users, so perhaps the > existing behavior should be preserved, with a bit that can be flipped > for stateless user accounts. I agree that perhaps statefulness should be the default for now, as that seems the "common way to do things". Alex
