Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:34:51 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Users needed or not by ports Message-ID: <AANLkTin3TDr3peGJ6m3EnN7%2BMSY3RcFZ2=BfKSDFk4iz@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimXPS4xBtx%2B2XJm99eetbwjBvsfC3PrjZSs14XT@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimXPS4xBtx%2B2XJm99eetbwjBvsfC3PrjZSs14XT@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM, David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Before writing a patch for the ports framework, I just want to be sure > that FreeBSD ports shouldn't use a same user added by ports. For > example pulseaudio adds some users to the system (pulse, > pulse-whatever) and should these users be needed from others ports ? > > My plan is : > > 1. Register users added and needed by ports in files like +USERS +GROUPS, > 2. When make deinstall or pkg_delete port_name check if the user is > still needed by other port (if this is possible) > 3. Print a message like "The following users and group are not needed > anymore by the system : xxx yyy" > > pkgsrc already use something like this, so a port should be really > easy to be done. This has already been discussed (including in a thread that you started [1]). This needs support in both ports and pkg_install. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg27486.html -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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