On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 16:49 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/25/19 4:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Wrong. tmpfiles_process() requires virtual/tmpfiles on any system, > > including daemontools, bare minimal init and whatever. Keeping it > > installed afterwards is a minor side effect, and technical limitation of > > our dependency types (lack of install-depend). > > > > What's wrong? You only need the effect of tmpfiles_process() if you're > running systemd or OpenRC. If the user is running SysV-init and if the > package also installs a SysV-init script, then that init script is going > to have to create any temporary directories it needs, because SysV-init > doesn't know anything about tmpfiles. >
This isn't about init scripts. This is about arbitrary directories that need to be created at runtime and potentially cleaned up or recreated after reboot, such as cache directories. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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