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Re:Limiting the power of package installation in Debian by toast0 on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:08AM (#18469202)
User management could be handled as part of the package metadata, rather than an install script.

Schema migrations would still need a script or something though.

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Re:Limiting the power of package installation in Debian by simion314 on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:47AM (#18469455)
Then you need to add support for this features to the package manager, I imagine that the package manager will never cover all uses so you would need for rare cases the ability to run a script.
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Re:Limiting the power of package installation in Debian by anoncake on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:30AM (#18469744)
That script could be sandboxed to only have access to its packages' files.
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