* Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> [170813 13:19]: > On 08/13/2017 07:11 PM, Peter Silva wrote: > >> apt by default automatically deletes packages files after a successful > >> install, > > > > I don't think it does that. > > The "apt" command line tool doesn't, but traditional "apt-get" does, as > does "aptitude". This was documented in the release notes of Jessie and > the changelog of the APT package when the "apt" wrapper was introduced.
This differs from my experience. My laptop's /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory has 3459 .deb files. I use aptitude almost exclusively, and I update several times a week. Is there an apt.conf parameter that controls this? I don't remember seeing any news or changelog about this, but if I did, I might have disabled it. Or maybe there is an apt.conf entry, whose default is to not do apt-get clean after each install, but newly installed systems have a snippet in /etc/apt.conf.d/ that turns it on? Can you give the version number in /usr/share/doc/apt/changelog.gz where this was mentioned? A cursory glance through the Jessie release notes (HTML) TOC doesn't give any obvious pointer to where this was mentioned; can you give a ref for this as well? (This is an honest question, I'm not trying to be accusatory.) Thanks...Marvin