Andrew Suffield wrote: > > No! /tmp is for temporary files which are SMALL. Depends on how you define small. For example, k3b uses /tmp to store the image before burning the cd-r and there is no obvious way to change it. If your /tmp is so small that can't even accomodate one temporary source tree, lots of software will fail. > > It is frequently held in memory and will not accomodate things like > entire source trees. If you desperately need large working space on > the local filesystem, that's /var/tmp, but you should really be > working in . wherever possible. . is bad because it is arbitrary. You don't want to litter arbitrary place, don't you? > > That goes doubly for anybody who thinks they can get away with putting > revision libraries in /tmp. Your sysadmin will come over to your house > and kill you slowly with a rusty spoon. I have been doing this for monthes, don't see that coming :) It is a personal choice to put revlib in /tmp. I use debian too and debian also provide tmpreaper. > > -- > .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield > : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | > `. `' | > `- -><- | > Derek
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