On Wednesday 29 July 2009 20:09:52 Peter Poeml wrote:

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So what? When you're out of space, you'll change the default. You're usually not out of space. And with DownloadInHeaps, the space should not be a problem anyway.

That's not true. It very much depends on what you do. Installing some patches you may get small heaps, 'zypper dup' might produce pretty lage ones. An if you are running out of disk space, it does not help to simply change the policy. The cache is the one that also keeps the packges if the .reop tells to do so (keeppackages=1). I suppose only few people use that feature, otherwise I'd expect more complaints about missing cache maintenance tools. If keeppackages is on, or if you now abort an installation with DownloadInAdvacne, packages will stay in the cache. So we should offer something to inspect and cleanup (maybe more sophisticated than zupper --clean). -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres YaST Development ma@novell.com SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org