Marvin Renich wrote:
> 
> Please do not remove the jabber user on purge.  Once a filesystem has a
> file owned by that user, purging the user removes information valuable
> to the sysadmin (think backups, log files, etc., as well as possible
> security implications in some cases).
> 
> There was a thread on mentors[0] where there were initially a few
> dissenting opinions, but the thread ended with four DD's on that thread
> and a reference to a fifth DD on a different thread asserting that
> packages should not remove users on purge.

I'll look into this, but my initial feeling is that a purge of the
package should remove anything it's done and leave the system as if it
never was.  As such I'm not initially inclined to change this behavior.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins



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