On 4/26/19 9:07 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> I don't think so -- not if it needs that tmpfiles >> entry to be processed every reboot. Thus it should have its own RDEPEND >> on virtual/tmpfiles, making the one in the eclass redundant. > > It doesn't need to be processed every reboot. It needs to be processed > at least once. Now, if you were doing something fancy like having > /var/cache on tmpfs, then it would need to be processed on reboot. >
If /var/cache/eix can be deleted, then the tmpfiles entry needs to be processed on every reboot. If /var/cache/eix cannot be deleted, then a tmpfiles entry is the wrong way to create it: keepdir should be used instead.
