On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:05:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Though now that I think about it, there is really very little reason > > to check for the existence of a user at all. Most packages should be > > using adduser, which will do the right thing if the user already > > exists. > > Won't such packages have to pre-depend on adduser? Only if they use adduser in their preinst script. -- - mdz