I demand that Justin Pryzby may or may not have written... > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: [snip] >> I decided to put the files in /root/ (like it was in the quake2 package). >> The main reason for this is that the downloads are considerable and I can >> assume that users don't want to discard them as easily as a temp file (2x >> around 40 MB).
>> AFAIK, this is also the strategy of realplayeri (when I still used it). >> Maybe there is a better location for such files. > Indeed /root/ feels like a bad place. I would suggest /tmp/ or something > in /var/. Maybe /var/cache/, because "information" isn't "lost" if it gets > deleted? /var/cache/install/$PACKAGE? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html> What happens if you tie some buttered bread to a cat's back - then drop it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
