On 2019-03-27, rlhar...@oplink.net <rlhar...@oplink.net> wrote: > On 2019.03.27 07:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:01:38AM +1100, David wrote: >>> The important differences to be aware of are probably: ><snip> > >> Also: >> * apt removes the .deb files that it downloads, after installing them. >> apt-get leaves them in /var/cache/. This is configurable, I think. > ><snip> > >> And probably more that I'm not remembering or never encountered before >> switching back to apt-*. > > Interesting. But though I am keyboard-oriented, my preference is > Synaptic, because I typically am searching for a particular feature in a > package, and for this the package summaries presented by Synaptic save > me time. > >
I haven't noticed 'apt' deleting the download cache by default here on my Stretch machine; I also 'apt clean' periodically for this very reason (that argument being accepted by apt and more*, although it remains undocumented so as to not confuse and/or clutter the minds of the hoi polloi). * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781237 In the time-frame of the cited bug (October, 2015), at least, one thread participant opined that the automatic clean-up in apt had yet to be "implemented". Has it been done since somewhere?