[Synaptic-devel] feature request: better cache management

[Paul]

At present, there are only 3 options for managing the cache:

* Leave all downloaded packages in the cache
* Delete downloaded packages after installation
* Only delete packages that are no longer available

None of these options are particularly satisfactory. Recently, I 
discovered that my cache had grown to nearly 4 gigabytes. This on a 
system with only a 20GB hard drive.

I propose managing the cache in a similar manner to the way that 
Internet browser caches are managed. Where you specify a maximum number 
of megabytes, and those items that have been in the cache longest (or 
accessed longest ago) get removed, to free up space. So the cache 
doesn't eat up all the available space on the hard drive.


Paul Dietrich