Burning needs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:14:31AM +0100, josé ángel madrid gómez wrote:
> {Can I suggest something? Does it not have a tool to send away those 
> archives and .deb's which have no use anymore? Everytime I install 
> something which I don't really need, just to taste, some archives come 
> into my hard disk. Can I know which ones I will never need?}

Simply set the APT configuration variable APT::Periodic::Autoclean to "1"
(or some other number of days) in order to clean the cache automatically.

mvo: perhaps upgrade-notifier should do this?

I also used to use a cron job which would remove packages from the cache
based on access time, to keep it even smaller.  It would be simple to
implement a configuration variable for this as well, given the existing
infrastructure.

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 - mdz