Re: package management help
On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 22:23:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I'm no package management expert. I only install packages when I need
> new capabilities, or when doing security updates. I discovered during
> this apache2 troubleshooting that I had 1.6GB of .deb files in the apt
> package cache. I did an 'aptitude autoclean' and that cut it down to 430MB.
>
> Is there any good reason to not go ahead and run 'aptitude clean' and
> just get rid of all of those? What purpose do they serve once a package
> has been installed? I can't recall ever reinstalling a package after
> I've removed it.
Unless you are bandwidth constrained, using a cache as a repository for
other machines or just lazy I cannot think of a compelling reason not to
'clean' it. With unstable I tend to leave it for a while just in case it
is necessary to roll back to a known working set of packages in the
event there is some update which causes a problem.
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