Well you've just created you're own FOSS project candidate... (after a couple of more googling and searching in sourceforge and freshmeat... to make sure it hasn't been written) I think a program like this could be pretty cool and easily technically feasible even without aptitiude although I'd check out what's aptitutde written in and see if it has any shared libraries or an API I cold use. To take it a step further I would try to automatically figure out what you're not using and _suggest_ the cleanup. I know this sound windowish but it's not necessarily a bad thing. To design awareness of what you use on the system you'd probebly have to have a daemon montioring the proccess table and deriving the proccess to their binaries to their packgaes. Once you have the ability to derive dependencies you could probebly solve it yourself (even in perl if you must :) ) and be able to avoid the clause I remember someone using as a signature or as an example... Probebly misremembered.. "When I wrote one day to Alan Cox and asked him why their was no _MY_COOL_FEATURE_ in the _ULTRA_COOL_SOUND_CARD_ he replied... because you didn't write it".
regards Lior On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:22:34 +0200, Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 18 December 2004 13:03, Haggai Eran wrote: > > You can use aptitude. > > You can mark packages as A, which means they will be Automatically > > installed when there is a package that depends on them, and > > automatically uninstalled when the last package that depends on them > > is uninstalled. > ok, > this is good solution for starting administration on the system. i have > already installed packages without marking them as A. > mybe there is a program that try to clean the system. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBxBMAe7jKk87FUO8RAqnFAJ9uT+nV1ExUb3oTHui8M7vR1CVOogCfXueX > k59HPX1lgvbfXTWHznfbkEE= > =uTaj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
