Why is it necessary to have both public and private buckets?

[toabi]

If an application only uses one type of bucket it seems weird to have to define both.

[theriverman]

thanks for the question!

I've implemented this safety guard with the intention of reducing developer/maintainer debug times.
if you believe that this approach does not fulfil its purpose, then I'm very much open to further discussion!

[MRigal]

Same for me here! I use MinIO only to save some kind of data inside an intranet and I don't want public buckets for it. I have to use a subclass of the Backend to overcome this safety guard, that's pretty weird!

[toabi]

We also usually only need public OR private files in our projects. In all those project it's highly annoying that this code forces the existence of two buckets.