Subject: bug#75306: 31.0.50; Make `small-temporary-file-directory` variable obsolete

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 23:30:14 -0600

Björn Bidar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Björn Bidar <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> Hi Björn,
>>
>>>> And in the Tramp case, you break an existing interface. Users have been
>>>> instructed to change the value of small-temporary-file-directory when
>>>> needed. See (info "(tramp) Frequently Asked Questions"), which documents
>>>> a user problem reported on the <[email-masked]> ML.
>>>
>>> If the intend of the variable is the same as listed in the Tramp FAQ why
>>> not set it by default to /run/user/<uid>?
>>>
>>> For such use cases using /run/user/<uid> is much better as it more
>>> secure and on a ramdisk.
>>
>> Because it isn't portable. The Tramp manual gives just an example.
>
> Portable across Unixes or Linux?

Portable across all systems that we support, see etc/MACHINES.