Hi, On Mon, 3 May 2010, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Michael Matz
[2010-05-03 15:06]: So what, set MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP. Oh wait, that's not the Redhat way. Yeah right.
No, it matches the historical practice and current default behavior of most other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems as well
Which is largely irrelevant if a certain system itself has a long history with its defaults.
as the specified behavior of /tmp according to the FHS 2.3 Chapter 3 and IEEE Std 1003.1 XBD Chapter 10.1.
To which the same as above applies. Written specifications are most often trumped by reality.
It should not cause any problems with the software included in openSUSE.
It's not a problem with the software, but with the users. We do the whole distro thing for users, not for specifications or software. Hence, if a change surprises users and potentially destroys data it's a bad change, no matter what is written anywhere, or how anyone else is doing it. In this case the relevant set of users is the old SuSE users. Due to the past history of not deleting /tmp they came to expect that this isn't done. And we can't nilly-willy change this by default for everyone because it means data loss. I'm not sure why we even have that discussion, it's pretty clear, data-loss for changed default, inconvenience for new users for unchanged default. Easy choice to me.
Manually putting data into /tmp and expecting it to persist is (and has always been) completely braindamaged.
Yes, but it's the way it is. In particular "you're braindamaged" is no good excuse to delete user files.
The openSUSE default install does not put /tmp on a separate partition so filling up /tmp means filling up the root filesystem.
That is sometimes a problem yes. Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org