Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Jon, Jon Dowland wrote: For simple per-package results, dpigs from debian-goodies gives you what you want (and is little more than a one-liner similar to what was posted by another to this thread, internally.) Am I doing something wrong or does this not take into account dependencies?

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:47:22AM -0600, green wrote: So, imagine that I have a full filesystem and want to fix it by removing a single package. I would need to get a list of manually installed packages, and go through each one of them individually, proposing a removal and saving aptitude's

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Dim 24 février 2013 23:02, Alois Mahdal a écrit : Hello, I know that due to numerous dependencies and relations, it is a complicated question how much disk space a package costs: * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want to count libc* 1 times, do we)? * Do

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread green
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* 1 times, do we)? * Do we want to separately address * `purge`able ~/.app-data? *

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Alois, Alois Mahdal wrote: * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want to count libc* 1 times, do we)? Possible, but might be difficult. * Do we want to separately address * `purge`able ~/.app-data? * /etc/app/settings? * /var/logs/app?

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread Jon Dowland
For simple per-package results, dpigs from debian-goodies gives you what you want (and is little more than a one-liner similar to what was posted by another to this thread, internally.) As for cumulative space, what you want is not how much space a package takes up but to answer the question: for

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread green
Jon Dowland wrote at 2013-02-25 11:35 -0600: As for cumulative space, what you want is not how much space a package takes up but to answer the question: for a given set of package operations, what space will be occupied/freed? In my experience, firing up aptitude, programming in the