On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:32:00AM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:20 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > In general, you cannot assume that the administator doesn't use the user > > for other stuff too, related (or not) to the package. An extra user > > entry really doesn't hurt anything, so can safely be left. > > I thought that was kind of the destinction between remove and purge. > Purge tries to remove as much as the package scripts actually can - if > the administrator didn't add anything, this would mean everything. If > the administrator wants related stuff to stay around, they just remove a > package. If they want to purge a package, they should take care of > removing anything they added on top as well. >
Personally (IMO) if a package is installed, and immediately removed (with a purge), the system shoud be left in the same state as if the package was never installed in the first place. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li B345BDD3
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