> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:10:14PM -0400, Erik LaBianca wrote: > > RFE: rpm should have a %createuser and %creategroup directives that > > handle this sort of stuff. They should have flags to remove (or not) on > > uninstall, etc. > > No package should *ever* auto-remove users or groups. That's just > asking for trouble. Let the admin remove the user if necessary. > Probably a good recommendation, and should possibly be added to the fedora checklist. After testing out a lot of packages (easily installed via yum or whatever) the poor user may have an awful lot of empty users/groups clogging up his system though. I don't think it's a cut and dried problem. It at least provides a workaround for my immediate problem in that I can just reinstall the package until it stops whining about missing users/groups. --erik
