Re: Missing [/usr/local]/var/lib and [/usr/local]/tmp

[Edward Welbourne]

Alejandro Colomar (Monday, July 18, 2022 14:07)
> MacOS seems to be setting TMPDIR (or at least some script run at 
> startup seems to be setting it in my system), and it's set to something 
> really weird that I don't trust will exist after reboot.

Then I think the way you're using tmpdir doesn't match its usual
semantics, namely that it's exactly a directory that's routinely blown
away and recreated, at least as often as boot-time and ideally more
often.  If what you need is a place to store (even semi-) persistent
state for a program, that should survive reboots, then you want
$prefix/var/, not /tmp/ (which may well be a tmpfs partition, indeed).

        Eddy.