Allan McRae wrote: > On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote: > >> would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the >> environment variable TMPDIR? > > File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list. Then > relevant people might actually see your request. I'm not "relevant" enough to post to any dev lists. > But I do not get it... what is the point of having /tmp in RAM and > then setting TMPDIR elsewhere? This has been answered by Hector Martinez-Seara. Sometimes, there's not enough space in /tmp ... clemens