why doesn't installation setup /var/tmp/rpm?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:13:26 -0500
Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I always have to do
> mkdir /var/tmp/rpm
> chmod 1777 /var/tmp/rpm

What's it needed for? I've never needed to do this.

Paul.