Greetings:

I thought I would go ahead and confirm this one. I noticed it myself
today, and I wanted to follow up here.

I recommend that we remove the check and the warning entirely.

First, the warning is already incorrect. It may mislead someone into
thinking that they can remove a group that still as members.

Second, an empty group is in many if not most cases NOT an error. There
are several standard groups that may be empty on a given system (e.g.,
"cdrom" or "adm").

Third, I believe that this is a case of "deluser" being a bit too
helpful. We should only be worried about whether a group is empty or not
when deleting a group. Otherwise, it is on the sysadmin to check for
empty groups if they are not desired.

Is my reasoning sound here?

If so, I'll work on this one after I finish the bug I'm working on
currently. It should be an easy win!

-- 
Jason Franklin

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