[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

Sat Jan 21 20:07:54 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 21/01/12 17:21 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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 you not just symlink /tmp to /var/tmp?
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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