On 4/25/19 5:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> 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. >
It's very much about init scripts. We have at least five service managers in the tree, * sys-apps/openrc * sys-apps/systemd * sys-apps/sysvinit * sys-process/runit * sys-process/daemontools(-encore) And the only reason we would need a transient directory created and/or cleaned-up is because one of those service managers is going to start a program that needs it. Two of them can use the tmpfiles mechanism, but the others must handle it on their own: in particular, they don't need tmpfiles_process() to do anything.
