why does packrat keep old source versions?
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Description
Even after using packrat::snapshot() and packrat::clean() (just for good measure, I know it does something else), packrat seems to like keeping old zipped sources in packrat/src/pkg/, like so:
Is that intended behavior? Can I disable that?
Seems like with any kind of frequent development ,that would really blow up the size of the packrat repo ...
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Reproduce the behavior using packrat::snapshot() and packrat::clean(), then inspect the contents of packrat/src/pkg/. Determine whether retaining old zipped sources is intentional and whether the reported growth can be disabled; document the observed behavior and the supported configuration or cleanup result.
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- tooling
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- Bug
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