Re: [gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-09 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 06:14 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > A group/user is created when no other ebuild has the dependency and is > removed when the last ebuild has been removed which needs it? This blows up if you have to uninstall and reinstall a package, caused by blockers or whatever. Files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mike Frysinger schrieb: > On Saturday 08 September 2007, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> While writing this i have found GLEP-27. What is the current status >> concerning this? > > presumably you'd search bugzilla and come across 53269 > -mike I have searched bugzilla, but not for the specific glep. T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 08 September 2007, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > While writing this i have found GLEP-27. What is the current status > concerning this? presumably you'd search bugzilla and come across 53269 -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Managing users and groups

2007-09-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi, I have recently checked the contents of /etc/{group,passwd,shadow} and found that there are users and groups which are not needed anymore because the packages which need them have also been removed. I have deleted some of them which are unnecessary with userdel and groupdel. I have experience