Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:
So an option that is literally documented as saying “all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted”, that you knew nothing about, sounded like a “good idea”? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand?
Maybe don’t just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh"
Good devs, good product, I’m really excited about out shitty, shitty future.
@nick I don’t know. I can understand both sides.
Users searching for solutions of their problems, stumbling upon a new functionality and test it out without doing what it does.
Developers specifying what it does and therefore expect people would know what they are doing.
Anyway a compromise got merged to make it more difficult for users to accidentally mess up. Which is probably good. But I don’t think you need to handhold users all the time…