Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > I'm a bit surprised how many people seem to really rely on data in /tmp > to survive for weeks or even months. I wonder if they backup /tmp?
I use /tmp for things that fall somewhere between "needs a backup" and "unimportant, can be deleted whenever". I think all of the issues raised (disappearing files from git checkouts, old files in unpacked tarballs/debootstraps/downloads, autopkgtests, 3rd-party-software, bad choices in tmux/ssh-agent/etc) fall into that spectrum: It's not that the data is critical, but losing it creates more work -- what is the reason for accepting that 'risk'? btw, i'm not trying to argue against the change, but i dont yet understand the rationale (which id like to be put into the release-notes): is there perhaps something more compelling than "other distributions and upstream already do this"?
