On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 11:48, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > Am 06.05.24 um 12:18 schrieb Luca Boccassi: > > 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. > > > Aligning defaults across distros does have value. > That said, a distro like Debian has a larger scope than say a desktop > oriented one like Fedora. > Debian is used on a broad spectrum of systems: from embedded to server > to cloud to desktop. > So I think it is valuable to gather feedback from all affected parties > to make an informed decision. > > What upstream is doing should not be the only driving factor.
It's impossible to have defaults that make everyone happy, there will always be someone who doesn't like any choice one might pick (there are people unhappy with the current ones too). 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? I only found autopkgtest so far, which uses /tmp/ in the guest and expects it to survive across reboots, and I have a MR up already for that. Anything else?
