Fine, then the description of --noclean should possibly remove the words; "...not used..." then ?
Bob On Friday 01 August 2003 10:44 am, Duncan wrote: > On Fri 01 Aug 2003 07:36, w9ya posted as excerpted below: > > o.k.....I'll bite...how is that different than: > > > > " --noclean - keep rpm not used in cache....." > > > > (as far as default behavior ) ? > > --noclean keeps ALL packages, including successfully installed ones, > including if you never manually clean it, all versions even after upgrading > to the next ones. Thus you will have a history of versions you've > installed, handy if the latest doesn't work, but it will eat space pretty > fast, when using Cooker and some active packages may be released several > times in a day... > > What would be nice is that combined with a script to go behind and clean up > all but the latest two or perhaps three versions.. so you hopefully have > the last one that worked, perhaps one that installed but didn't work, and > possibly one that wouldn't install due to dependency errors but was d/led. > That'd still get bulky, but not so much so.. as it would only be keeping > copies of what you installed, not the packages not installed. Thus, a > couple-ish gigs should do for those not installing everything that comes > along.
