On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:32 +0200, Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx wrote: > rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx said: > > The only reason for not wanting to remove accounts on package removal to me > > is "accounts leaving stray files somewhere". > > > However, rpms should have always have control over all files it owns. > > Well, there are many cases of packages producing some files while they run, That's why I said "should". It is possible in many cases (%postun, %ghost or %triggerun scripts), but won't be possible or useful in all cases. E.g. I would not want an mysql update remove my mysql data bases. > which they will not own. E.g., > > root: rpm -qf /var/log/mysqld.log.4 > file /var/log/mysqld.log.4 is not owned by any package > root: ls -l /var/log/mysqld.log.4 > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Aug 7 03:02 /var/log/mysqld.log.4 > > So I think the UID should stay... until the sysadm removes it. IMO, this is an example where removing files is possible: E.g. %postun rm -f /var/log/mysqld.log* Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging