Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>]

On Friday 30 March 2012, Ralf Lang wrote:
> > > We should fix those "known" programs to use /var/tmp instead of
> > > /tmp anyway.
> >
> > That's not viable. What about the unknown (at this time) programs?
> > There are closed source programs, too. Or old software. Users would
> > have to back the oS version.
> >
> > Any big change done to Linux will break things beyond your/our
> > control. Please don't.
>
> You know beforehand the answer going to be "we cannot fix and cannot
> care for what's not in the distribution".

Err ... we can't fix the unknown - true. That's why we should not break 
it for no reason.
A user who is actively using his /tmp since 15 years without probs is 
BTW something what we should care about. What is wrong with simply NOT 
mounting tmpfs on his /tmp per default?

cu,
Rudi
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