On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Angel Tsankov <[email protected]> wrote: > In his hint "Package users" Matthias Benkmann recommends to name the primary > group of a package user after the user name. But why duplicate information > instead of extending it?! Couldn't we name the primary group after the > package (just as he suggests) but name the package user after the package > *and* the package version? This would make it very easy to find which > version or versions of a package are installed (provided that when removing > version V of package P *all* files belonging to the respective user are > removed). Does anyone see any flaws of this idea? > > --Angel Tsankov
You can use the name for what ever you want. Though there easier ways to find version of installed software I think. like "<program> --version" and every installed library has its version number in its name I think Matthias Benkman has pointed out more usefull things to do with the group name :) Herman Gerritsen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
