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man,units: drop "temporary" from description of systemd-tmpfiles

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Historically, systemd-tmpfiles was designed to manager temporary
files, but nowadays it has become a generic tool for managing
all kinds of files. To avoid user confusion, let's remove "temporary"
from the tool's description.

As discussed in #33349
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Mike Yuan
2024-06-15 19:08:35 +02:00
committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files
and directories, using the configuration file format and location specified in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. It must
<para><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> creates, deletes, and cleans up files and directories, using
the configuration file format and location specified in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
Historically, it was designed to manage volatile and temporary files, as the name suggests, but it provides
generic file management functionality and can be used to manage any kind of files. It must
be invoked with one or more commands <option>--create</option>, <option>--remove</option>, and
<option>--clean</option>, to select the respective subset of operations.</para>