On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dan Christensen wrote: > It seems that if the files in /var/lib/apt/lists are deleted, they > will be automatically downloaded again on the next apt-get update. > So I think this qualifies as cached data, the sort of data that one This is only true if you are using remote sources, CD sources for instance do not have this property, and apt will not work correctly without these files being present. Jason