Keeping files downloaded by Smart

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sun Jan 22 03:48:15 PST 2006


Taco Schotanus wrote:
> 
> But why would you want to use synaptic to downoad your packages and 
> smart to install them?
> 
> I can understand that if you are on a slow line and have used synaptic 
> before that you would want to do this, but it would be a one-time 
> operation, wouldn't it?
> 
> Cheers,
>  -Tako
> 
Yes, of course:  I have an archive of synaptic-downloads and wanted to 
be able to use these if appropriate - perhaps on other systems.  This 
renaming ploy means that I can.

Cheers,

John



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