On 11/13/2011 07:31 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> [2011.11.13.1204 +0100]: > >> A fixed policy is going to interact badly with real systems and >> per-site decisions about, say, disk partitioning and provisioining >> of RAM for various purposes. >> >> The proper policy, IMHO, is that a) all software that uses temporary >> files should obey TMPDIR if set (and fall back on /tmp if not) >> and b) all software must deal with out-of-disk-space errors in a >> sensible way (where the exact details may depend on the software). >> > Fully agreed. > > Please do not try to (ab)use policy to tell me how I have to > administer/manage my systems. Use policy to dictate how programs we > provide as part of The Debian System must behave. > > I would welcome if TMPDIR-related bugs and bugs related to > temporary file handling would become release-critical. > That was my though too (maybe badly expressed). Of course, it's ok to use temporary space, and what we need to enforce is a way to choose WHERE (even if it was by other means than the TMPDIR, it would be ok for me...).
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