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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 09:27:15 BST
From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie>
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Subject: Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>,
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I find /usr/tmp very useful.  I install with a small
root partition (20MB) and then symblink /usr/tmp
to /tmp.


On Sat, 27 Jul 1996 14:49:39 -0700 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > /usr/tmp is a leftover from pre-4.4BSD and should die.
> 
> I'll just remove it in the fixup stage.  It's used by pkg_add to have
> a larger TMP when you're doing things like installing emacs. :)


Mike
<mike@NetworX.ie>
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