On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:50:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: || On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
|| > The postrm script cannot rely on adduser to be available when purging. || Is it acceptable to not remove the user in absence of deluser and to || throw a warning instead? Over here at the BSP, the consensus seems to be that: a) There is no consensus on a system user should be removed at all, because when file systems are not mounted at the time the user is removed, files may be left that do no longer belong to any user. b) In absence of other information, there is a preference to leave the system user on the system. My take on this: judge for yourself as package manager if it is likely that there are any files on unmounted file systems. c) If you want to remove the system user, and deluser is gone, you're pretty much out of luck. It's a best effort thing. Ciao. Vincent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]