Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

[Daniel Martí <danielmarti.debian@gmail.com>]

Roger Leigh <rleigh@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outdated .debs when you update, and require special configuration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.

Daniel