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

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 dependenc

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 pro

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: fo

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

Re: Cost of packages in disk space?

2013-02-25 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 25 février 2013 16:23, green a écrit : > "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 sepa

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 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)? >