Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Suppose that, during months and years, you have installed many packages in >> your Debian system that you no more want and no more use, and that you want >> to free some space on disk because your machine is old with a small hard >> disk. The problem is what packages you can be really sure and safe to >> remove. > > At some point you actually have to *know* what a package does. Go through > the list sorted by size and skip everything you know is useful. When you > get to one that you think is not useful, or which you don't recognize > *at all*, dig into it and find out what it does. Then consider removing > it, but be prepared to put it back if you break something. > > This is how you learn. > > P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by > size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that.
Very useful. Thanks. Rodolfo