On Sunday 20 June 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > The main reason IIRC is that leaving the packages makes it unnecessary > to download them again if part of e.g. tasksel fails for whatever reason > and the user has to install some packages manually [...].
Note that the above argument is only really valid for packages installed *after* base-installer. If base-installer fails we generally consider the whole installation broken so only cleaning the cache at the end of that (and not also during finish-install) could be something to consider. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006201234.06330.elen...@planet.nl
