On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe writes: > > > > On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > > > > > I don't see how you can refer to deleting an installed package's > > > *.deb file as "sensible behavior". > > > > There exists no apt command that will let you install the .deb, so it > > is perfectly sensible to erase it. > > I disagree with your assertion.
Well, you can disagree, but you still haven't provided an apt-get command that will let you use the .deb in the cache. The cache belongs to APT, if it cannot make use of a file in the cache it is removed. Jason
