Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: > we should bring the > defaults in line with upstream and other distributions
This is not an argument. Why can't "upstream and other distributions" be in line with Debian? That would obviously be the sane thing for then to strive for on most technical subjects. Please state the *technical* reasons justifyin your proposed changes. It's fine with me if you copy those reasons from " upstream and other distributions". If there are any. It's so vague that I, as a Debian user, don't even know which distributions you are talking about. > - /var/tmp/ is cleaned up on a timer IMHO this is crazy. Please don't do that. It is a completely unexpected policy change with exactly no upside AFAICS. The downside is obvious: Users will lose temporary data they expected to be persistent. I predict that this will haunt us for years, like all the other major policy changes which was forced upon us lately with the "upstream and other distributions" arguments. For heavens sake, you're still struggling with the fallout of the /usr merge! How many years is that now? But "upstream and other distributions" did it, so therefore Debian had to as well? Bjørn
