On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:35:57PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > But perhaps deborphan and orphaner can do most of the work themselves. > deborphan is able to manages the dependency better than a grep in a list, > and orphaner does interaction with the administrator. > > So, deborphan and orphaner has to be "modularized" in some way for that.
As said in my other mail, I also think that this should be done this way. If you are not interested in writing a wrapper after I implemented the necessary parts in deborphan I could also implement everything needed in deborphan and orphaner, which would make this wrapper needlessly. I would be happy with both options. If you prefer the whole use case to be handled by deborphan and orphaner over a wrapper there is another issue which has to be resolved first: Some people, especially FSF fellows and fedora consider the Artistic License 1.0 (deborphan uses this license without the usual "_OR_ GPL2+") to be non-free. To prevent future problems I decided to try to relicense deborphan and orphaner under the conditions of the MIT License ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php ) and today I got the last required permission. Since parts of your code might be helpful to extend orphaner to interact with popcon I also would need your permission: Do you agree to publish the parts of your fork of orphaner where you are the copyright holder under the conditions of the above-mentioned MIT license? If you choose not to write the wrapper and agree to the relicensing I think this bug can be reassigned to deborphan, but I leave this decision to the maintainers of popularity-contest. > That's why I'm looking for something that can help my to clean my system. Until this bug is fixed you could use (requires moreutils to be installed): combine <(deborphan -a --no-show-section) and <(popcon-largest-unused | awk '{print $2}') To get a list of old packages which can not be reinstalled: wget http://stateful.de/~carsten/bin/apt-listrepository chmod a+x apt-listrepository apt-listrepository | grep /var/lib/dpkg/status To show the size of all installed packages you could use debsize[1], which requires dctrl-tools to be installed. If this does not match the disk usage on your system using du -s * | sort -n recursively might help to find old cruft. I guess you already know that apt-get clean cleans your apt package cache. Regards Carsten [1] debsize() { case $1 in -v | --verbose) grep-status -nsPackage,Installed-Size -FStatus " installed" \ | while read package do \ read size read printf '%6d %-25s\n' "$size" "$package" done \ | sort -rn ;; -h | --help | -*) echo "Usage: debsize [ -v | --verbose | -h | --help ]" ;; *) grep-status -ns Installed-Size -Fstatus " installed" \ | awk '{i+=$1}END{print i}' \ | sed 's#\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)$#\1\.\2 kb#' \ | sed 's#\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}[.]\)#\1\.\2#' ;; esac } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
