"Morel Bérenger" wrote at 2013-02-25 03:18 -0600: > Le Dim 24 février 2013 23:02, Alois Mahdal a écrit : > > * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want > > to count libc* 10000 times, do we)? > > > > * Do we want to separately address > > * `purge`able ~/.app-data? > > * /etc/app/settings? > > * /var/logs/app? > > > > > > * Or are we looking for more sophisticated advice like "hey, > > do you know that libhuge is required only by this hardlyeverused-app"? > > ("think about upgrade costs, dude!") > > > Typical use case is when one is running out of disk space > > on / or /usr/. Such tool could be applied in much wider sense, though. > > Using aptitude with it's gui will give you those data.
aptitude only provides per-package compressed/installed sizes (probably not including any config/log files generated by the package) and sizes for applying a package set change (eg. when upgrading). I do not know of a way to obtain sophisticated information about the disk space a package requires, as in the examples and scenarios quoted; it certainly would at times be useful to have such a utility.
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