On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Ugh, no. Do *not* remove users on purge, it's reason for all kinds of > problems, amongst others that you can never assure all files owned by > that user are removed, and therefore leaving userless files on the > system. You can't even do a global find, because some partitions can > happen to not be mounted, or others are in fact very slow tape robots. > > Leave the deletion of obsolete users up to the system administrator, do > not do so on purge.
What about small daemons that don't generate any files and don't require anything apart from what's in the package? Cheers, Til
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