| John Hasler 2007-06-06, 1:14 pm |
| Anton Ertl writes:
> I actually currently pay 839MB for /var/cache/apt/archives...
From the apt-get man page:
clean
clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package
files. It removes everything but the lock file from
/var/cache/apt/archives/ and
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a
dselect(8) method, clean is run automatically. Those who do not
use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean from time to
time to free up disk space.
I wrote:
> This would require that Debian modify every one of thousands of config
> files with a myriad of formats and deal with wierdnesses such as LSB
> metadata comments.
Anton Ertl writes:
> My impression is that Debian maintainers do that anyway.
Many config files are exactly as shipped by upstream.
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John Hasler
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