Burning needs

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:10:31AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

If synaptic is used as the package manager interface then there is a
option "Settings/Preferences/Temporary Files" that can be set to "Only
delete packages which are no longer availabe". This will do a internal
autoclean on each synaptic run.

> mvo: perhaps upgrade-notifier should do this?

Good idea, added to my todo list.
 
thanks,
 Michael

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