On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:46:58 +0100
"Hanno Böck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What is the correct way to handle this? I'd suggest that enewuser might get 
> some "force"-parameter that tells it to delete and recreate the user if it 
> already exists. Thoughts?

Tell the user to do it manually in pkg_setup/postinst. This is
something that IMO shouldn't be done by the ebuild/package manager for
two reasons:
- extreme cornercase, or how often does this come up?
- the system might rely on the current settings in unexpected ways

Marius
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