Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And I was suggesting none of that. Existing practice in Debian (and > something similar is done in all other "installers" I have seen) is to use > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt as the temporary mount point for a CD > installation. The CD is only mounted when needed by dselect, which allows > newer multi-CD installation methods to swap CDs during installation. > > I was suggesting that something like: > > /var/lib/<package/vendor name>/<some mount point>/ > > would make a suitable temporary mount point for third party software, as > it seems to be used now as the method for distros to do volatile mounts. > > Is there some reason you have yet to voice that makes this a bad answer > to the question?
Third party software which wants to make files for its own temporary use is supposed to use /tmp. So I would suggest that programs should created directories in /tmp, and mount there.
