On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Does this mean that apt-cache reads the local database + the server > repositories rather than the just the server repositories? I tend to > see that as a bug, not a feature, as it leads people, such as me, to > believe a package which was installed at some time in the past on the > local machine still exists in the repositories when it has, in fact, > been removed.
apt-cache is a low-level tool that shows you the contents of apt's package cache. If locally installed packages didn't show up in this cache, higher-level tools wouldn't know they existed, and hence wouldn't be able to remove them. This is not desirable. :-) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
