Re: deluser on purge (was: Piuparts testing status update)
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > This is something that I'd really like to see us sort out in policy, since
> > I think we should be able to describe consistent behavior with regard to
> > system users and package purging to our users. Right now, every
> > maintainer is making their own decision in this area, and I think that
> > provides an inferior experience for users.
> Every time the discussion has come up so far, there's been an absence of
> consensus about whether it was correct to attempt to reclaim user ids on
> purge.
At this point, I found no objection to the proposal of having a
configuration to decide to remove user on purge or to keep them.
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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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