Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> writes:

> Defaults are defaults, they are trivially and fully overridable where
> needed if needed. Especially container and VM managers these days can
> super trivially override them via SMBIOS Type11 strings or
> Credentials, ephemerally and without changing the guest image at all.

That argument goes both ways and I prefer safe defaults. What
you/upstream propose are unsafe defaults, as was shown by several
comments in this thread. Whoever wants the unsafe defaults of deleting
old files and risking OOM situations can than "trivially and fully
override" the safe defaults.