Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 15:42, Richard Lewis > <richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: >> >> > Hence, I am not really looking for philosophical discussions or lists >> > of personal preferences or hypotheticals, but for facts: what would >> > break where, and how to fix it? >> >> cleaning /tmp or /var/tmp: users may lose files if they dont realise a >> directory tmp can be cleaned without a reboot. something in /var/tmp >> that's been in there for 35 days before an upgrade might be deleted >> before the user reads the NEWS.Debian email, meaning they have no >> chance to react). Maybe you could postpone the very first deletion >> until after the next reboot? >> >> using a tmpfs: is there a risk of losing unrelated data due to more >> frequent OOM killing random other programmes due to /tmp using all the >> memory? is there a case to only use a tmpfs if the system has >> "enough" memory? > > Again, those are all hypotheticals, and one can construct similarly > contrived thought exercises for most possible permutations of most > configurations, and the answer is always the same: customize the > configuration accordingly. Hence, not relevant right now.
> What is relevant is: which packages, if any, or which DSA-owned > systems, if any, are actually affected and how? Why do you think that the impact on users is less important than the impact on debian packages?
