[Aptitude-devel] Bug#110685: (Optional) apt-get clean after install

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2001-08-30 17:27 Steve Greenland:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.5.3-2
>Severity: wishlist
>
>It would be nice if there was an option to clean (not just auto-clean)
>after installing. Note the difference: clean removes all (successfully
>installed?) .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives, not just the ones
>that are no longer available. Should be trivial, as all you need to do
>is call 'apt-get clean'.
>
>Hmm, apt supports this for dselect via the DSelect::Clean option (both
>autoclean and clean), maybe you can hook into that? Or have Jason
>provide a general hook?

2002-04-12 05:06 Andrew Pimlott:
>This is just a "vote" for this wishlist bug, since it seems to have
>been forgotten.  I think most users would want this behavior.


This has been implemented now, it will be present in the next release.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>