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MX Cleanup
Re: MX Cleanup
I see what you mean. I wasn't sure what the lists were. Just out of curiosity, are the lists automatically deleted when the lists are updated?
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I think if you remove a source the corresponding list is deleted after apt-get update, otherwise the lists are updated (not deleted) when you do "apt-get update".
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I've had a look at what Bleachbit showed on my installed OS (MX16), and it showed ~250MB of package lists. I did an update via the update manager and afterwards I had ~330MB of package lists. As a final thought, would it be possible for the update manager to clear the lists, or just old lists, when it does an update to free up a bit of HD space?
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With every apt-update the package-manager will fetch all changed package-lists from the package server and would remove old ones. If you delete all package-lists the apt-package-manager would need to download all package-lists again,
even those which have not changed. So you would not gain much to have temporarily removed the pkg-lists.
But you would increase the download-traffic from the server, your used bandwidth and would force unneeded writing onto your hd/ssd.
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Re: MX Cleanup
besides, without the lists, synaptic will only show what's installed instead of what's available (without a reload anyway, which brings back the lists). (At least I think that's the case).
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That's true. It happened to me the first time I ever used Bleachbit, and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong with Synaptic.
Re: MX Cleanup
Thanks to all for the info.
I'll put this down as a bad idea
I'll put this down as a bad idea

Re: MX Cleanup
@Gerson,
Buena discusión.
Creo que el Cleanup es suficiente para limpiar la mayoría de datos innecesarios,
antes de hacer un Snapshot.
Saludos, Richard.
Buena discusión.
Creo que el Cleanup es suficiente para limpiar la mayoría de datos innecesarios,
antes de hacer un Snapshot.
Saludos, Richard.
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Re: MX Cleanup
Is this truely package lists or the downloaded/cached packages that were installed in the upgrade?colin_b wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:50 pmI've had a look at what Bleachbit showed on my installed OS (MX16), and it showed ~250MB of package lists. I did an update via the update manager and afterwards I had ~330MB of package lists. As a final thought, would it be possible for the update manager to clear the lists, or just old lists, when it does an update to free up a bit of HD space?
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I was wondering about that. 250MB seems a large size for lists.
Does MX-Cleanup include "apt-get clean" or "apt clean" to remove the cached packages?
Also, does Debian package management include a command (or some tag added to "apt clean") to remove all cached packages EXCEPT for the most recent X (which is a variable that can be specified) number of versions of the same package?
Arch has some commands that can do that. I'm not sure about Fedora and Opensuse, but I know the latter 2 distros have some settings to only keep the last X number of kernels.
It's useful to keep the most recent previous versions of a package, just in case you need to revert back to the previous version due to some bug or problem with the current.
Does MX-Cleanup include "apt-get clean" or "apt clean" to remove the cached packages?
Also, does Debian package management include a command (or some tag added to "apt clean") to remove all cached packages EXCEPT for the most recent X (which is a variable that can be specified) number of versions of the same package?
Arch has some commands that can do that. I'm not sure about Fedora and Opensuse, but I know the latter 2 distros have some settings to only keep the last X number of kernels.
It's useful to keep the most recent previous versions of a package, just in case you need to revert back to the previous version due to some bug or problem with the current.
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