* Jason Spiro:

> Debfoster shows a series of prompts. It would be great if each prompt
> told me how much space would be freed up if I did a "P" (purge)
> operation at that prompt.
>
> It would look as follows:
>
> ocaml is keeping the following 5 packages installed:
>  ocaml-base ocaml-base-nox ocaml-interp ocaml-nox tk8.4.
> Total 44.1 MB.
> Keep ocaml? [Ynpsiuqx?], [H]elp:

Should this include all the listed dependencies?  Hmm, I think so.

(But disk-space-starved systems are mostly a thing of the past for
me.)

> Note: I know debfoster is deprecated, but I still use both it and

It's no longer deprecated.

> aptitude. Here is why: I use aptitude to auto-remove dependencies of
> apps when I uninstall the apps, but I also use debfoster every 3 or 4
> weeks to get a list of apps I have recently installed. By this point,
> I no longer use most of these apps. So, I use debfoster to get rid of
> the ones I no longer use.

Does this mean the "purge" default is the right one for you?  See
#224813.


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