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Because build scripts try to download more files there than fit in RAM.


Configuring the whole system to account for the needs of software installation is optimizing for the corner case.


I really don't think installing software is an edge case. On Linux distros, I don't even think compiling software is an edge case.


It's something the average non-developer does less than once per day, at most.

(And the average developer has enough savvy to change settings).

... also, most of the compilation tools I use end up dropping their intermediary files in a peer directory to the source tree or a build directory at the root of the project, not in /tmp. I'm not sure what tools people are using that are leaving compilation intermediates in /tmp.




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