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https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wipe_fix/
Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory. That's a feature.
The 256.1 release is now out, containing some 38 minor changes and bugfixes. Among these are some changes to the help text around the systemd-tmpfiles command, which describes itself as a tool to "Create, delete, and clean up files and directories." Red Hat's RHEL documentation describes it as a tool for managing and cleaning up your temporary files.
That sounds innocuous enough, right?
It isn't, as Github user jedenastka discovered on Friday. He filed bug #33349 and the description makes for harrowing reading, not just because of the tool's entirely intended behavior, but also because of the systemd maintainers' response, which could be summarized as "you're doing it wrong".
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Unixnut on Sunday June 23 2024, @08:02PM
I think that is the entire point, by subsuming commands people are already familiar with they take over, and make the "systemd way" the default.
If they created new names for all their commands people would just keep on using the old ones as they are already familiar with them, and more importantly there is a huge legacy of shell scripts out there that use the originals, meaning the new systemd commands would never really take off.