[2011-11-25 00:18:43 +0100] clemens fischer: > would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the > environment variable TMPDIR? > > I mean, this is stupid. Many people keep /tmp in RAM, on a tmpfs, and > make it big enough, but not too big, as it takes away RAM when getting > loaded. > > #define TMP_LOC "TMPDIR" > #include <stdlib.h> /* getenv(3) */ > #include <string.h> /* strncat(3) */ > td = getenv(TMP_LOC); > /* cleanup for safety: td = cleanup(td); */ > tmpdir = strncat(td, "/", 1); > > What can be so difficult about this? If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug report on the tracker and submit a patch. -- Gaetan
