Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.7.20 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, Hi Thijs, > Please consider to change the default for APT::Periodic:AutocleanInterval > to something higher than 0 (e.g. 7). > > My rationale is that in the current default setup, APT's package cache > will grow indefinitely. The autoclean option from the apt cron.daily > script provides an elegant way to prevent the cache from growing out of > control with old packages, but it is not run automatically; you have to > change the setting for that. > > As I see autoclean doing no harm on a system by default, let's enable it > by default. Autoclean can do unwanted if someone needs to downgrade (or upgrade?) a package to previous version that was installed only day ago and worked well, it can be found in /var/cache/apt/archives, but already cannot in all official archives as they contain newer versions. Snapshots.debian.net doesn't contain all versions, and few people know about it. I also remember several such questions on debian-user@, for example. If user needs this feature, it can just set this option, this should not be a problem, IMO. See also related bug #160743, I wonder if they can be merged. I would mark this as wontfix. Other developers may concur. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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