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On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:32:56 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 09:53 -0400, Brian Evans wrote: |
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> > On 6/9/2019 7:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > +Tracking of user/group usage is done through dependencies. As long |
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> > > +as any installed package depends on a specific user/group package, |
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> > > +the respective user/group is assumed to be used. If no package |
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> > > +requiring the specific user/group is left, the package manager |
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> > > +automatically prunes the package clearly indicating it is no longer |
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> > > +used. |
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> > |
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> > You cannot know when a name is "no longer used". An administrator could |
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> > have adopted a username for other purposes. |
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> That's why we don't remove the actual user/group. However, this is |
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> a valuable information to the administrator that no package is using |
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> the user/group in question. |
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So how do you propose to clean them up? Or let user systems trash |
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with unused uids/gids? The GLEP 81 only mensions some possible |
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tooling for cleanup. Is there an implementation available? I don't |
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see it within proposed patch sets. |
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This GLEP should not be accepted unless all necessary tools are |
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available including a cleanup tool. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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