Users and groups kept after a port deinstallation

[Florent Thoumie]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:11 AM, David DEMELIER
<demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used pkgsrc for a while on NetBSD. I was used to the pkgsrc
> notifications about the users and groups leaves, when some ports are
> removed these leaves are not used anymore. e.g pulseaudio needs some
> users on the system.
>
> Then the pkgsrc framework says to the user that are some users not
> used anymore and they could remove them safely.
>
> Ports has the lack of this kind of notification, that's why I would
> start writing a patch in the ports infrastructure, or maybe someone
> already proposed something else ?
>
> I apologize for my bad english.

This was discussed in the following bug-report:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108514

I think the proper solution is to create a +UGIDS file to be able to
maintain a refcount, but the status quo isn't that bad.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer