Jon Dowland wrote at 2013-02-25 11:35 -0600: > As for cumulative space, what you want is not how much space a package takes up > but to answer the question: for a given set of package operations, what space > will be occupied/freed? In my experience, firing up aptitude, programming in > the proposed change (removals or additions) and hitting 'go' once, gives you > the space changes that would result if you hit 'go' a second time. So, imagine that I have a full filesystem and want to fix it by removing a single package. I would need to get a list of manually installed packages, and go through each one of them individually, proposing a removal and saving aptitude's freed space result. A week later, I might have a list of freed space values to sort. So this would have to be scripted to be useful, but even then would probably take quite a long time unless you could make aptitude keep the loaded resolver information in memory between interations.
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