Comment 11 for bug 312491
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| RichardNeill (ubuntu-richardneill) wrote | #11 |
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It would also be a useful thing if "apt-get clean" were a default, and run after every apt-get install.
The rationale for not deleting debs that are downloaded is from the days when network bandwidth was very expensive. These days, bandwidth is cheap, but disk space often isn't (think SSDs which are usually 32 - 64 GB). Once a deb has been installed, it's very unlikely that the user will want it again.