Comment 8 for bug 311277

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Sorry, it is a very bad practice to remove system users on package purge. There might still be files or processes left which belong to that user, and the next time you install a package which creates a new system user, that new one would suddenly inherit those files/processes.

Instead, the installation should be made more robust, so that an already existing user is just checked that it has correct properties (system user, etc.)