On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:48PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > 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/$PACKAGE? Why not /var/cache/$package/ maybe /v/c/$package/install/
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