yum clean bug

[Willem Riede]

On 12/09/2005 03:10:16 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> 1. shouldn't yum remove every part of /var/cache/yum not covered by a
> repo (enabled or not) since obviously it can not use it for optimization
> purposes ? (this would correspond to standard home-keeping after repo
> removal/renaming). Other tools routinely remove this kind of leftovers
> or at least flag them (yum leftovers can be huge, a repo can consume
> hundreds of MiBs in old downloaded packages, and people seem to like
> renaming repositories). Unless there is some other reason to keep it ?
> (but then it does not belong in /var/cache/yum anymore)

Are you effectively arguing for a --deleterepo=<name> option, where this would  
remove both the <name>.repo file and /var/cache/yum/<name> plus contents?

Other than that, I'm with everybody else that thinks the current behavior is  
just fine.

Regards, Willem Riede.