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]

Marco d'Itri md at Linux.IT
Tue May 28 23:44:29 BST 2024


On May 28, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:

> I think it is bad choice to deliberately have different behavior for
> freshly installed and upgraded systems. Offering upgrades has always
> been one of the major selling points of Debian, and imho this
> implicitely includes that you do not get a worse or second class Debian
> installation when you upgrade it than if you installed from scratch.
I strongly disagree: it is a bad choice to change on upgrades a default 
which may cause data loss.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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