Re: Why do we have system-user-wwwrun? It conflict with nginx user:group and is NOT a real dependency of php.

On 11/30/24 7:32 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

You decided to outsmart packaging system and now you complain? What harm having the user wwwrun does? Rewind several years and you had this user hard coded in /etc/passwd. Did it also "conflict" with nginx?

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    These nanny packages should be optional and NOT a dependency.

They cannot be optional. Either package requires this user or not. Yes, sometimes these requirements become outdated and need clean up. Just do it.

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233691 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.