Re: Could/should you set Dir::Cache::{pkgcache, srcpkgcache} = ""; if all you are doing is locally downloading dependencies of an installation package?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Albretch Mueller wrote: 
>  I also notice repeated copies of {src-, pkgcache}.bin files for each
> downloaded package even though I am downloading them to specific
> subdirectories in order to then install them using dpkg.
>  Do you really need those binaries and cache instructions if you are
> just downloading the installation dependencies? How do you remove,
> disregard those kinds of caching strategies in a graceful way?


Does 'sudo apt clean' solve this for you?

-dsr-