o in spite of being the *default*, it isn't that universal, and in any event, we can just decide to change the default, no? One can say to people with bandwidth limitations, that their apt settings should not delete packages after receipt, so that they can be used as the basis for updates. And these types of settings would appear to be rather common already, so it isn't a huge change.
It strikes me as much simpler and lower to add zsync to the current repo/apt tools, and that asking clients to do some caching to support it is reasonable. On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote: > On 08/13/2017 07:11 PM, Peter Silva wrote: >>> apt by default automatically deletes packages files after a successful >>> install, >> >> I don't think it does that. > > The "apt" command line tool doesn't, but traditional "apt-get" does, as > does "aptitude". This was documented in the release notes of Jessie and > the changelog of the APT package when the "apt" wrapper was introduced. > > Regards, > Christian