On Tue, 1 Sep 2026, 14:07 Michael Tokarev, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/1/26 15:14, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > 1. revert 1652a2e019b5cd50. > > 2. drop first parameter from install_deps() and remove quite some code > > 3. when --no-apt-update is given, always turn on --no-apt-distclean > > (and mention this in the docs). > > > To me, this --apt-distclean thing makes less and less sense, -- > it looks like it should always be off. > > As I mentioned before, I don't see the logic behind all this. >
fwiw, me neither (but i think it doesnt hurt, as long as we can still run lintian), running apt clean might make more sense ie delete downloaded .deb files but leave apt able to download packages. fwiw, i think for a user there is a tension between -1 debugging, where you want to use the same packages each time, and have fast builds: so the apt update/apt upgrade / new tarball stuff is unhelpful - 2 (preparing for ) release, where you want to build against the latest of everything and have the cleanest minimal environment. so the update /new tarball stuff is essential because people are lazy, you probably do want the defaults to be for #2 even though the first is what people spend more time doing
