[arch-dev-public] user/group management in packages

[Jerome Leclanche]

2015-02-03 12:46 GMT+01:00 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>
> 1) We should not remove users/groups when packages are uninstalled. This
> is a potential security issue if any files are left owned by the
> non-existent user/group.

When should the cleanup be done? Installing and immediately
uninstalling a package should really not do permanent changes to the
system; iow, ideally, users shouldn't have to do regular cleanups on
their system like that.

J. Leclanche