Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> weird because what then is the purpose of that variable
>
> But if there is no such variable, what's the point of looking for its
> purpose? :-) I suppose that on Unix, functions like mkstemp have to be
> preferred for truly temporary directories.
sure, but it depends on tmp being cleaned up too; afaik /tmp and c:/temp
are only cleaned up periodically e.g. when one runs out of space so it's
a kind of indication of 'may be cleaned up'
anyhow, it makes even more sense on templess systems to set the
texmfcache var
(what i actually dislike is all this ~/.crap stuff which apart from not
being that readable also give a fuzzy indication .. temp? hidden? weird?
app-only?)
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