On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 16:51, Barak A. Pearlmutter <ba...@cs.nuim.ie> wrote: > > > tmpfiles.d snippets can be defined to cleanup on a timer _anything_, > > It's a question of what the *default* behaviour should be.
No, it is not, at least not for the strawman you conjured. So I gather that git doesn't warn when cloning on other directories that might be cleaned up - great, that's a non-issue too. If you want it to do so, then the appropriate way is for you to file an RFE upstream and ask them to parse the installed tmpfiles.d on a system before cloning. This is not that hard to do, and the format is stable, and if they ask about that I'll happily back you up on this stability guarantee. But what git does or does not allow is then completely unrelated to anything happening here. > For whatever reason, a lot of people who process large data use /var/tmp/FOO/ > as a place to store information that should not be backed up, but also should > not just disappear. Then such people, assuming they actually exist, can configure their custom systems accordingly upon reading the release notes before upgrading, as they would do anyway if installing on CentOS or any other major OS. Hence, not an issue either.
