Re: Orphaned User Accounts?

[Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr>]

Dne, 03. 11. 2010 15:15:40 je Carlos Mennens napisal(a):
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  
> wrote:
> > Carlos Mennens writes:
> > The entries you are complaining about are
> > placeholders.  The idea is to standardize the UIDs of the various  
> system
> > users.  See section 9.2 of the Debian Policy manual.
>
> Not so much of a complaint rather than just trying to understand how
> Debian works. I still think that's a very large 'if' to clutter the
> system based on the information provided so far but I'm far from a
> developer. I would think developers could better configure the package
> installer (apt) to assign standard UID / GID once that time comes the
> user elects to install the software rather than pre-loading them but
> that's just me. Maybe the more I read, the better this will make
> sense.

I would think that developers, at some point, have to make choices;  
and, just as with some empty LSB (linux standard base) directories that  
get created on a bare-bones system, although there's no direct "need"  
for them and they simply stay there, unpopulated, the advantage of  
having them in place simply outweighs the negligible overhead they may  
impose on the system. If we were to look at stuff that takes more  
resources or disk space, I'm sure we would find that developers don't  
include them into a base system quite that light-heartedly.

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