Re: packages built with golang
On 2022-03-15, Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Whether or not you want to see it
>> is a different issue.
>
> I understand this.
>
>> The data is already on your system, so
>> there's no transmission happening.
>
> I do not understand this.
>
> I was under the impression that
> package information returned by ....
>
> apt-cache show some-package
>
> for packages that I have not installed
> would not be downloaded onto my system
> until I actually requested it.
'apt update' downloads the package metadata; when if you give apt the
update flag you request exactly that.
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