On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:21:08PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:16:31PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > If you regularly use apt-get (instead of dselect, aptitude, or synaptic) > > it stores all the downloaded packages and does not delete them. The > > other front ends either delete them immediately after installation or > > prompt you. > > aptitude does neither deletes them nor prompts me to delete them.
Actually, it can. Looking in /usr/share/aptitude/README, way down, under a heading "OTHER CONFIGURATION OPTIONS", it mentions an option that can be put in either ~/.aptitude/config or /etc/apt/apt.conf, Aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update Where it will delete files no longer in the archive. The default is listed as "false", and just now, I cannot find this option set on my system, but it seems that aptitude _is_ automatically removing old packages on my system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
