Author: Alex Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Etch and Synaptic?
> > Thanks Alex. I was wondering if /var/cache/apt/archives/* was required
> by "anything". I was going to poke around google to see what others had
> said, but I was fairly certain that they weren't needed after the
> install. Thanks for confirming that.
No problem, glad I could help. The archive directory for apt is just purely
that I believe. I'm not entirely sure why they're kept (apart from easy
--reinstall with apt, but it's just another download...). I'm sure some of
the real Debian experts here can explain :)
