From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGmYI-0000uI-GH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:38:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F6BDE03B2; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C61E03B2 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD6D65ACE for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:38:18 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change Message-ID: <20080121023818.GC6544@comet> References: <479156FF.5030508@xs4all.nl> <20080119021236.GO10389@aerie.halcy0n.com> <4791F359.1050500@gentoo.org> <479350EE.9000403@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479350EE.9000403@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 16dba8bb-f2dd-4ccc-a769-33007e41ff66 X-Archives-Hash: 4d2676323ef527fca6826b1d758dfa81 On 08:47 Sun 20 Jan , Richard Freeman wrote: > Duncan wrote: >> Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ >> tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it every >> time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably argue that >> tmp doesn't mean tmp? > > Anybody who comes from the world of Windows - where temp directories aren't > cleaned and usually eventually grow to 1/3rd of the disk on a typical > spyware-laden install? > > You and I know what /tmp is for, but we also know that we shouldn't be > running as root all the time and yet I'm sure there is a note in the > install handbook about that. 95% of new linux users come from Windows, and > as such they have a few bad habits that they'd probably be all to happy to > lose if somebody takes the time to point them out. Just one other point here. 95% of new Linux users is not 95% of new Gentoo Linux users. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list