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From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
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Subject: Users needed or not by ports
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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.

-- 
Demelier David