Re: oddity in apt-cache
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:08:22 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Does this mean that apt-cache reads the local database + the server
> repositories rather than the just the server repositories? I tend to
> see that as a bug, not a feature, as it leads people, such as me, to
> believe a package which was installed at some time in the past on the
> local machine still exists in the repositories when it has, in fact,
> been removed.
Sorry to interrupt, but I'm wondering what aptitude show shows?
Doug.
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