Andreas Barth wrote:
* Humberto Massa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 18:34]:
in my workstation I try out a new package (for scientfic computing, a
game for Lucas, a new development package) at least once each two days,
and a lot of times they come with their libs and their daemons -- and
their users. So I see them, and think "oh, no, this is not what I
thought it would be", and --purge them. And the daemons' users pile up
in /etc/passwd.
well, perhaps take it as administrators job to clean up /etc/passwd from
time to time if you install that many packages (because you as
administrator know which users were co-used with someone else, and which
not). But this is definitly not the most common scenario.
It seems that you still did not get my point.
My point is, in a SoHo workstation, this is exactly the most common
scenario nowadays (example: "hmm. let me try this new dvd-player... I
open synaptic, install it, ... nah, it does not work as I expected [but
it installed gstreamer, jackd, etc in the process] let me try the next
one in the list...")
--
HTH,
Massa
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