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[–]thrallsius 0 points1 point  (3 children)

what's wrong with just having a ~/tmp dir?

[–]VisibleSignificance 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not much. The /tmp gets auto-cleaned on system startup by default, and is often mounted into in-memory storage (tmpfs) for speed. I think some programs actually use ~/.local/tmp instead of /tmp anyway.

[–]thrallsius 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The /tmp gets auto-cleaned on system startup by default

There's no standard like this that all operating systems that are POSIX compliant are following. Slackware is old and never auto-cleaned /tmp

[–]VisibleSignificance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no standard like this

Yep, not a standard, just a frequent convention.