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Re: apt-get autoclean configuration



On Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:25:41 CEST David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 16:21:57 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:48:03PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > >   echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean
> > > 
> > > I've set it to "false", not to "no". The manual says "off", but didn't
> > > find any occurence of "on" and "off" in the other apt config files,
> > > just "true" or> 
> > > "false". Hope it works:
> > I'd think so. But alas, I can't quote a document stating the "official"
> > syntax. The man page doesn't say anything on this :-/
> 
> I don't understand. man apt.conf   has a whole section on syntax

The thing is that it's not obvious to me that you can set any of the values: 
"true", "on", "yes" vs. "false", "off", "no".
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