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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: bug#25080: When removing a user,
	'guix system reconfigure' does not remove the user's home directory
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:14:36 -0500
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To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
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Hi,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> If you add a user to your operating system configuration file,
> reconfigure, remove the user, and reconfigure again, then the user's
> home directory will remain.  I expected it to be deleted when I
> reconfigured the second time.
>
> Is this expected behavior?

I think (hope?) so.  If I accidentally made a mistake in my system
configuration and it resulted in the deletion of my home directory, I
would be *very* angry and probably never trust GuixSD again.

     Mark