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A way to suggest unused packages to remove
A way to suggest unused packages to remove
Posted Jan 3, 2007 5:06 UTC (Wed) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998)In reply to: Missing the point in package removal by ayeomans
Parent article: Predictions for 2007 (and how I did on 2006) (LinuxWorld)
You could build a tool to give you that information based on Debian's popularity-contest package, and the existing package priorities. Use the popularity-contest log file to determine which packages were not used, and suggest removal of all those with priority "optional" and "extra".
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A way to suggest unused packages to remove
Posted Jan 3, 2007 5:36 UTC (Wed) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]
Here's the really quick version:
grep '<OLD>' /var/log/popularity-contest | grep -v ' lib' | cut -d' ' -f3
Adjust to your desire.