Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: > Defaults are defaults, they are trivially and fully overridable where > needed if needed. Especially container and VM managers these days can > super trivially override them via SMBIOS Type11 strings or > Credentials, ephemerally and without changing the guest image at all.
That argument goes both ways and I prefer safe defaults. What you/upstream propose are unsafe defaults, as was shown by several comments in this thread. Whoever wants the unsafe defaults of deleting old files and risking OOM situations can than "trivially and fully override" the safe defaults.
