On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > And appending this text to section 10.9:
> >
> > ============
> > If you want files in a package to be owned by a dynamically allocated
> > user or group, then you should create the user or group in preinst, so
> > that it is present when the package is unpacked.
> > ============
>
> Objection.  There is no way to create any user in preinst as the tool
> to do so is not in an essential package.

This is what pre-depends are for.


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