Notices by Nekko (nekkodroid@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@vv221 Fun fact: bluca was the one recently pushing debian to by default use tmpfs /tmp/ to diviate less from upstream (he is one of the maintainers of systemd and the package, so good luck)

@vv221 The actual reason why it exists is because systemd is able to start with only /usr/ existing and set up a mostly functional system.

@vv221 Then ask your distributor to not include the file? Like, it was their decision to ship it to the end user.

Also you can also manually mask the file by creating an empty /etc/tmpfiles.d/home.conf just like you can do for every tmpfiles.d entry.

Edit: And --purge is the nuclear reset option, if you wanna clean up things marked for cleanup you use --clean or --remove