How to find out not frequently used package / package with big size?

Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Tue Apr 28 23:20:02 UTC 2009


Sundar Nagarajan schreef:
> howard chen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to find out not frequently used package? Such as the
>> one in Windows XP I am view by last used or package size?
>>
>> Currently I am using aptitude and find no way to easy to remove
>> unneeded package.
>>
> 
> popularity-contest does part of this. It uses atime on files, links to 
> the package database and sorts files based on time last accessed. It 
> should be fairly easy to process this output and mix with deborphan to 
> identify TOP-LEVEL packages (that nothing else depends on) that have not 
> been used in time X (or identify the least used packages).
> 
> popcon-largest-unused seems to identify the largest packages that are 
> unused (do man popcon-largest-unused). I haven't used these myself, but 
> they look pretty nifty. And yes, we DO have all the hooks in Linux too :-)
> 
> Sundar Nagarajan
> 
> 
> 
Learning something new every day. :-)

But what if I mount with noatime?


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