Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I disagree with the idea that removing a user is a bug. If the user was >> > added by the package, and the package is being purged, and there's a >> > reasonable expectation that it wasn't used outside of the package's use >> > of it then I think it's probably safe to remove it. >> >> How do you acquire that expectation? > > By knowing what the package uses the user for. This is somewhat akin to > the PostgreSQL package's question "do you want your data files to be > purged upon package removal", or the fact that the default Postgres > installation uses ident and the 'postgres' user is the superuser for the > database (meaning you're going to be su'ing to postgres probably a fair > bit).
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