[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

Sat Jan 21 18:35:39 CET 2012

On Saturday 21 January 2012 18:21:14 Oliver Burger wrote :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about
+> those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories:
+> /tmp/
+> /var/tmp/
+> ~/tmp/ (one for every user)
+> 
+> Now I can understand the reason behind having the user's tmp
+> separately, but why do we have two system wide separate tmp
+> directories?
+> This get's even more complicated by the fact that there are symbolic
+> links in .kde4/ to both:
+> lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli   21 Okt  7 10:34 cache-beteigeuze.oli-home ->
+> /var/tmp/kdecache-oli/
+> lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli   16 Okt  7 10:34 socket-beteigeuze.oli-home ->
+> /tmp/ksocket-oli/
+> lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli   12 Okt  7 10:34 tmp-beteigeuze.oli-home ->
+> /tmp/kde-oli/
+> 
+> Can't we do something about that?
+Probably
+in fact it simply follow 
+http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/KDE_Filesystem_Hierarchy.
+
+However i don't know if it's wise to setup the same path for thoses variables 
+(it's possible).
+
+
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+