[fink-core] Feature request: additional flag to cleanup, to make a *real* cleanup

[Thibaut C. <inf...@th...>]

Hello,

  I've been using Fink for three years. One feature has always annoyed me, =
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I only thought about reporting it when updating to Leopard. Because,=20
suddently, the source of the annoyance was gone. But I heard that it's comi=
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back. ;-)
  Alexander Hansen kindly suggested that I report this here.

  When I use "fink cleanup", Fink only deletes obsolete packages. Which mea=
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that, after cleanup, I still have about 1 Go of .deb files bloating my hard=
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drive.
  I have no use for those packages. The corresponding libs or apps are=20
installed anyway. Yes, they could be useful if I needed to reinstall=20
something. That hasn't happened in three years.
  So I'd rather have the possibility to delete *all* .deb files and not was=
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1 Go of disk space.

  I'm not asking to change the default behavior, but whether it would be=20
possible to add a flag to delete all packages. Something like :

fink cleanup --all-packages

  Thank your for your attention,

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Thibaut Cousin
http://www.thibaut-cousin.net