(In reply to Thorsten Kukuk from comment #19) > (In reply to Franck Bui from comment #18) > > > So the only safe way I can see would be to mask the unit by default during > > the installation if no entry for /tmp is created in fstab by the installer. > > We have many installation ways and methods, and also upgrade has to work. Updates of systemd package would take care of this. > > In my opinion, we should not ship tmp.mount in the default path, but as > 'example' or documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/systemd or so. That's what we're doing except that we care about users that already set up tmpfs on /tmp. > Yes, there is the risk to break very few installations, but I really doubt > that people outside there use it, since we remove it if not activated. So > how should an user ever activate it, if it is already removed at that point > in time? I don't agree with this and I'm wondering how you did figure out that few users are using tmpfs. Actually I'm using tmpfs on /tmp. And even if that would be true, breaking (voluntarily) user systems is a bad choice.