* Brock Pytlik <[email protected]> [2009-09-30 00:55]:
> In short, I believe the right place to do this is actually in the same
> place we do indexing. By default, what it should do is remove the
> files  from the download area which have been removed or changed in
> the new  packages. Only the imageplan has this knowledge, and I don't
> believe  there's a sane way to put that approach into the file_manager
> b/c it  doesn't have access to the plan. Changing the layout will make
> emptying  the cache each time significantly faster, allowing users to
> more easily  choose that setting. Of course, we'd also need a "keep
> everything  setting" and there are probably other settings based on
> time/size/the  phase of the moon that we may eventually want to
> support. All of these  are not this bug. I see nothing in the current
> design that would prevent  an implementation of any of these, if you
> do, please give concrete  examples. In fact, I see this work making
> those steps easier b/c now  there's a central location through which
> well behaving code will add and  remove files, making it easier for
> there to be something that has  knowledge of the state of the layout
> as a whole.

  I had thought the layout applied to both client and server, but the
  above paragraph is concerned with only client-side management.  Is
  the layout object only for client-side use?

  Thanks
  Stephen

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