[arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

Mauro Santos registo.mailling at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 05:32:16 EST 2011


On 25-11-2011 07:46, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> ...  however, i would consider it a bug for applications to
> store *very* large files (exceeding 50-100M or so) in /tmp -- /var/tmp
> would be more appropriate, even for ephemeral/transient files -- idk

Just out of curiosity, why do you say that? Is it a good practice rule
or something like that?

-- 
Mauro Santos


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