On Sun, 2021-07-11 at 15:53 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > > Furthermore, tmpfiles.d settings are only supposed for creation, > deletion and cleaning of volatile and temporary files. Any package which > will install tmpfiles.d settings which will create files in persistent > locations should be treated like a bug in the package itself (for Gentoo > packagers for example we have keepdir [3] function).
Not crucial to your main point, but packages that use keepdir under /var/cache (which is persistent) get prodded to use tmpfiles instead: https://bugs.gentoo.org/692736
