Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:26:21PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Agreed, yet there's a techical question in there. What's your take? I usually run apt-get autoremove and orphaner, clear /var/log stuff and /var/cache/apt as well; yet i always do have the feeling that my / oughta be smaller. Is

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
I'm not sure if this post is serious, but assuming that it is: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:22:12AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) It's more correct

RE: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-27 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Klistvud [mailto:quotati...@aliceadsl.fr] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:28 AM Subject: Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) Dne, 24. 04. 2009 13:26:21 je Nuno Magalhães napisal(a): Agreed, yet there's a techical question in there. What's your take? I

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-27 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-24, at 5:20 AM, Klistvud wrote: Your parallel with unregistered aliens is extremely malaprop, even more so in the context of an operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating system. Almost every country defines a legal immigration process and considers

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-26 Thread jidanni
Question: do all packages pass the piuparts tests yet, in that they don't leave a residue behind? If we are to name names then those who do not pass piuparts are it. Then there are those that create files at other times during their lifespan that piuparts wouldn't catch. Then there's the

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Your parallel with unregistered aliens is extremely malaprop, even more so in the context of an operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating system. I like to think it was just an (unwitty) attempt at being funny? Agreed, yet there's a techical question in there. What's

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 24. 04. 2009 03:22:12 je jida...@jidanni.org napisal(a): Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just # cruft -d

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 24. 04. 2009 13:26:21 je Nuno Magalhães napisal(a): Your parallel with unregistered aliens is extremely malaprop, even more so in the context of an operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating system. I like to think it was just an (unwitty) attempt at being

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Kemp
Is there an option to autoremove unused files? deborphan can be used to remove packages that were installed for dependencies alone and are no longer needed. http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Removing_unnecessary_packages_with_deborphan apt-get and aptitude both have

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just # cruft -d / will probably produce tons of output on any

Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-23 Thread jidanni
Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just # cruft -d / will probably produce tons of output on any system that has been under real use