John Hasler wrote: > Victor writes: > > We are all familiar with the situation when after a long period of > > usage, a system becomes full of software which we once installed for > > some purpose and then abandoned or disused. > > No, we aren't. I've been running Debian since 1.1 was released and have > never experienced that problem.
Maybe you document every package you install? > > > A gentle hint on what is an <unwanted package> would be very much > > appreciated at such moments. > > How could a package management system possibly know that? That's where we come to my original question. A package management system cannot possibly know that, but it can save a list of packages present at the time of installation, for later comparison/rollback. Or I could have saved this list manually if I had known, or derive it from installation/apt logs. I however was erroneously assuming that this information was already saved somewhere and available for use, hence my original question. I did not expect a harsh reaction actually, as if I was saying a heresy. > > Perhaps what you want is something which will tell you which programs > have gone unused for the longest time. That would be nice too. But it would probably require the definition of a "program" which maybe some entity more abstract than a package. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
