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authorTimo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>2023-01-31 15:14:54 +0200
committerTimo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>2023-04-10 22:06:24 +0300
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cache: improve and document purging
Document cache clean --purge better. Add a cache purge alias for it. And also purge installed package copies on disk installs. fixes #10857
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@@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ The following options are available for all commands.
Write progress to the specified file descriptor.
*--purge*
- Delete modified configuration files on package removal and uninstalled
- packages from cache on cache clean.
+ Purge modified configuration and cached packages. Enables deletion of
+ modified configuration files on package removal. On cache clean action
+ this enables deletion of unneeded cached packages (uninstalled packages
+ on tmpfs installations or all packages on disk installations).
*--repositories-file* _REPOFILE_
Override system repositories, see *apk-repositories*(8). Specifying this