Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size.
What can be done about this? Note that to get an /opt, I bind this to a directory on my over-sized home. Same for /usr/local! These need not be mounted at boot or before home gets mounted so all this kludge is well-behaved and transparent. Trick like this for all of /var, obviously will not play. Any other ideas?? (Actually, apt's part of this is quite small in comparison.)