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From: "Gerrit Kühn" <gerrit.kuehn@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:58:26
Message-Id: 20180209115813.50e10cf8e99b028f76960f1a@aei.mpg.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs by gevisz
1 On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote about
2 Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs:
3
4 > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in
5 > > make.conf. Job done!
6 >
7 > It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then?
8 >
9 > Can somebody think of a situation when it should not be done?
10
11 /var/tmp/portage may take up quite some space, and not everybody will want
12 to have that on a RAM-based fs.
13
14
15 cu
16 Gerrit