Post #1394393

@AdrianVovk @mhoye if any software I ever released ever unexpectedly deleted a user's home dir I'd be beyond upset. The systemd team (and some fans) hardly seem to care and this attitude is a huge part of the problem. The response range of RTFM to "I guess we can add a bit more docs meh" entirely misses the mark for me. But is exactly what i expect from that team sadly. Unexpectedly deleting user data is beyond trust breaking and software I want to use and work on has a different attitude. One that when working on functions that could ever get close to that warn users, are wrapped in protects, etc. not ones that causally delete a /home directory. I think the reason I'm having a hard time articulating it here is because the entire point of view and user focus I and the systemd team are operating from are very far apart. If something has a chance to delete user data it needs so many warning and appropriate labeling. That this didn't and the team never apologized once is a very stark data point to me. As another angle. Unix apps arent traditionally huge on side effects and so again it's quite a lot for something supposed to be removing tmp files to kill a home dir. I don't care about mislabeling or functional drift. The fact no one at what sounds like many stages of development and then even reporting saw this as the problem that some of us do is the problem. Sorry this got long and ranty a bit but I'm trying to express the magnitude of the gulf I see here