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A smarter package manager  
Written by guiral.lacotte the 28 Feb 08 at 23:56. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Make the package manager smarter and more user friendly.

1. Auto-update Add an easy to use auto-update option ( why should i type my root password at every update ?)
2. Smart-remove and clean up, after every update/upgrade outdated packages stay installed. It's confusing for user ( grub screen with 9 different kernel choices ). It's waste disk space, etc.
3. At this RSS and podcast age why it's so complicated to add an depository ?
4. If you have two or more computer on the same LAN at every update every package are downloaded twice. It's inefficient for the client ( pay par MB connection ) and for the server. If every package is signed, why don't get it from other computer's apt-cache when it's possible ?

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