Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: >To be honest, I've always found apt's inability to manage its >cache without manual intervention somewhat annoying. It should >be perfectly capable of pruning its own cache rather than >pointlessly filling up /var with thousands of downloaded >packages. I'm surprised it doesn't automatically remove >outdated .debs when you update, and require special configuration >not to do that. > I rather see it as conservative. Nowadays, a few extra hundreds of megabytes are not critical, or at least should not be. But imagine you update a package and it breaks your system - You have the older .deb cached right away. I know you could get it off another computer if you're having network problems, but I think the predefined caching has its advantages too.
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