On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:48 AM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This push to destroy /var really needs to be stopped, or at least > handled as a whole and not on a piecemeal basis. There are many > packages that store data and config in /var that is NOT to be deleted at > will. The big thing is databases, but there are lots of little things. No one is envisioning non-obvious or automatic factory resets as a matter of course. Firefox keeps a bunch of databases ~/.mozilla/firefox. Were it true that deleting any of these databases resulted in Firefox crashing, or otherwise being non-functional, that would be a bug. It is also true that deleting these databases, or the entire user profile, constitutes data loss. That it is data loss doesn't absolve an application from misbehaving, rather than reverting to a default but functional state. > For example, snmpd stores program-generated config in /var/lib/net-snmp, > which gets merged with config from /etc/snmp. What's the exact consequence of deleting either /etc/snmp and /var/lib/net-snmp - separately and together? If there's program-generated config in /var/lib/net-snmp, why can't it regenerate it when its missing? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
