Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: >> Perhaps it should be >> extended to allow the directory to be below ~/ instead of below >> /tmp/. :) >> > I don't think so. As other pointed out, your /home could be > remote (over NFS?), and then slow, while /tmp is normally > on your local machine, so moving the temp folder in ~/ will > potentially slow them down, and break quota.
... yeah, my homedir is in NFS, and I get no end of grief from the bazillion packages in debian that blithely cache vast quantities of (often very uninteresting) data in random subdirs of $HOME... and then expect accessing it to be very fast.... :[ -miles -- Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d35na73z....@catnip.gol.com
