Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 Severity: wishlist apt should be removing packages which has been already correctly installed. For now, when there is even one package which has some configuration problem, apt will leave all downloaded packages in cache directory (which might be quite a lot of megs - and its growing, as they are remaining there between updgrades)
Also I don't understand why the apt is calling dpkg --configure on the same package several times, when its clear, that nothing which could influence the package has changed in the system. E.g. for now wwwoffle can't proceed successfully with post config. So for now it's trying twice to configure this package without success during installation process. Apt should be smart enough and check if any package which wwwoffle depends on has changes. In case thats not true, its might print the message, that this packages is leaved unconfigured, and continue with next package. (also just in case you would be boring - minor improvement would be, if apt wouldn't try to configure this package even in the next install, if nonthing which could influence 'wwwoffle' has changed) And finaly - how about continues get when just part of the package has been downloaded - sometimes the line is slow, the net is broken, and you have to use 33Kbps its pretty borring to download all the X packages several times. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dual 2.2.16pre6-SMP-AGP-RTL2.3pre2 #1 SMP Wed May 31 12:12:31 CEST 2000 i686 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-12 The GNU stdc++ library
