G'day all, a few questions

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:08:12PM +1000, David wrote:
> this sounds like a bad idea... I'm doing a test install right now, but if
> it works out well Ubuntu will go on at least two other machines.
> 
> that's lots of wasted bandwidth. Surely there should be an option - delete
> or not. On modern systems disc space is not an issue.

It would make a fairly noticeable difference to our headline disk
requirements, which are already frighteningly larger than Debian's. I
agree with Matt: the utility of the files in /var/cache/apt/archives is
small in that form, and if you have bandwidth problems and need to
install multiple machines, a CD will be a better option for you. Failing
that, create a local mirror of Ubuntu.

However, if you boot the second stage of the installation with
KEEP_BASE_DEBS=yes, then base-config won't clear out
/var/cache/apt/archives.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]