Mark Loeser wrote:
Should an elog statement been put into the ebuild...maybe.
I leave that up to the maintainer to decide what is important enough to
be logged, and they clearly thought this wasn't in this case.
I think that this would probably warrant an elog. Sure, anybody who
knows the "correct" way to admin unix doesn't put anything important in
/tmp - but educating our users before blowing away their data isn't a
bad thing. We shouldn't assume our users are idiots, but this is an
obscure enough piece of admin knowledge that I think that users will be
impacted by the change.
Doesn't impact me one way or another - in my case both /tmp and /var/tmp
are tmpfs filesystems. However, I do have a few longer-duration "temp"
folders on my system that get cleaned by tmpreaper but is used for stuff
that is nice to keep around a little longer.
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