Comment by candiddevmike

/var/tmp, IMO, shouldn't exist--the idea of temporary files that should persist beyond a reboot is tech debt, those files should exist under a proper /var/{cache,lib} directory. Podman uses this directory and it drives me nuts.

The XDG base directory spec (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...) was supposed to solve all of this...