also sprach Guillem Jover <[email protected]> [2008.04.12.2003 +0200]: > Seems this behaviour was there but reverted long time ago in commit > f48836f8589e17fabed7bddcc402422b394e1820, which at the same time > introduced the --forget-old-unavail option. I don't see much point in > that change, something which can be done automatically is relegated to > manual intervention by the user (or the need for frontends to use that > option). I think I'll revert the part related to forget-old-unavail > and reintroduce the automatic removal of purged entries from status. > Probably not now with dpkg being frozen, though.
What's the status of this. I found that running
grep-status -! -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' \
| sudo sponge /var/lib/dpkg/status
on older systems speeds up dpkg *a lot*. Can we make this default
(or is it already)?
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