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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Of death and prerm
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:32:50
Message-Id: 3bcaff62-f90f-fd6a-f53f-dba921edfc07@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Of death and prerm by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 08/30/2017 09:26 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >
3 >> 1a. If you try to uninstall a user package, it should die(), because
4 >> calling userdel can be a security risk if the user still owns
5 >> files.
6 >
7 > This rather sounds like a case for package manager support with
8 > some property like RESTRICT="uninstall".
9 >
10
11 Would it still be possible to override with I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=yes then?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Of death and prerm Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>