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FS#13029 - [gdm] uninstall doesn't remove gdm user/group or logfiles

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by infohigh (infohigh) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 06:33 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 14 August 2009, 19:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Removing gdm 2.20.9-1 (current) with:
pacman -Rn gdm
does not remove the gdm user/group created by the install script.

It also left its logfiles in /var/log/gdm/, and /var/run/daemons/gdm (although that gets cleared on reboot anyway, I think).

I'm not sure if any of these would be considered a bug, but I don't like deleting programs only to find that they've left a mess :)

Steps to reproduce:
1. pacman -S gdm
2. pacman -Rn gdm
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 14 August 2009, 19:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in 2.20.10-2.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 30 January 2009, 16:15 GMT
Logfiles should never get cleaned up by package uninstall. You don't want to rm -rf /var/log either when you uninstall syslog-ng for example?
Comment by infohigh (infohigh) - Friday, 30 January 2009, 19:46 GMT
Hmmm, I suppose you're right about the log files.

What about a created user/group? :o
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 14:45 GMT
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