Re: oddity in apt-cache
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> was heard to say:
> 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.
apt-cache is a low-level tool that shows you the contents of apt's
package cache. If locally installed packages didn't show up in this
cache, higher-level tools wouldn't know they existed, and hence wouldn't
be able to remove them. This is not desirable. :-)
Daniel
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