On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only > > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway. > > (Unless you actually need them) > > apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect, > *all* downloaded and installed packages are deleted without any > further question. > > I live in german and once i upgraded to slink (about 80 megs of > download) - this had cost me about 10 DM (i think about 6,5 US-$). All > downloads with dselect till now are about 30-40 DM. I'm not very > pleased that in the case my harddisk will fail or something else > happens and i'm in need to reinstall, i have to download all this > again and so once again to invest the all the money. > > USA people seem to forget that in other contries download may be very > expensive. > > And in each case it always costs time to download the deleted files > once again - hey, time is money. > > I don't understand why an install tool is so dumb to delete packages > after they are intalled. If something is to be deleted, *I* decide so, > not any tool without questioning me. > > That's the main cause why i still use method ftp instead of method > apt.
Doesn't dselect delete them after installation regardless of the method? apt-get WITHOUT dselect won't delete the files until you tell it to with 'apt-get clean'. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen