Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> writes:
>
> > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> > (Unless you actually need them)
>
> apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect,
> *all* downloaded and installed packages are deleted without any
> further question.
>
> I live in german and once i upgraded to slink (about 80 megs of
> download) - this had cost me about 10 DM (i think about 6,5 US-$). All
> downloads with dselect till now are about 30-40 DM. I'm not very
> pleased that in the case my harddisk will fail or something else
> happens and i'm in need to reinstall, i have to download all this
> again and so once again to invest the all the money.
>
> USA people seem to forget that in other contries download may be very
> expensive.
>
> And in each case it always costs time to download the deleted files
> once again - hey, time is money.
>
> I don't understand why an install tool is so dumb to delete packages
> after they are intalled. If something is to be deleted, *I* decide so,
> not any tool without questioning me.
>
> That's the main cause why i still use method ftp instead of method
> apt.
Doesn't dselect delete them after installation regardless of the method?
apt-get WITHOUT dselect won't delete the files until you tell it to with
'apt-get clean'.
Bob
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