Bug#859150: installation-guide: leaves many /tmp/tmp* files behind

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Am Fr. Mär. 31 00:24:41 2017 GMT+0200 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Hello Holger,
> 
> Cyril Brulebois, on ven. 31 mars 2017 00:09:34 +0200, wrote:
> > Maybe to ease hands-on debugging, dblatex is called with the -d flag,
> > which tells it to leave temporary files behind. This ends up filling
> > up dillon's /tmp (in addition to being rather bad style in the first
> > place…).
> 
> Is -d really useful now that we have seen the whole thing working?
> 
> Alternatively,
> 
> >  - or set TMPDIR to a subdirectory of $tempdir, which gets automatically
> >    removed after a build.
> 
> would be fine to me, I'm just thinking that we perhaps just not need
> these files at all now.

There is probably a chance, that a new version of dblatex or
another tool breaks something some day.
So I would vote for the second variant.

Holger

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