Actually, wanting this stuff not at install/configure time is one of the primary driving forces behind the mechanism. Lennart Poettering notes that it moves th

Actually, wanting this stuff not at install/configure time is one of the primary driving forces behind the mechanism. Lennart Poettering notes that it moves the relevant tasks out of package pre/post-install/deinstall scripts and into service startup and shutdown. Ironically, the alternative approach here is more descriptive and less imperative package management. Witness manifest files on the old BSD pkg system. Rather than every package maintainer writing an install/deinstall script to invoke the relevant account database tools, packages place a @newuser or @newgroup directive in the file and the packaging system handles creating and deleting the account at appropriate times. * https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_create.1 https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_create.1