package size stats
Often, I wish I could extract certain information
out of the package database, such as the size,
age, and distribution the package came from. This
would make it a lot easier when deciding what packages
can be removed to make room for others (i.e. very old,
too large, etc). Also which ones I ought to upgrade
and so on. Right now I have packages from three
separate Debian distributions, and probably a lot
of stuff that's just taking up disk space.
It'd also be neat to be able to tell if a package is
depended on by another, though that sounds much harder
to do.
It's clear that the data is in there, since apt-get
can compute the consumed disk space of a potential
installation before doing it.
Does anyone know how to do this? Please CC.
Thanks,
Terry Hancock
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Terry Hancock
hancock@anansispaceworks.com
Anansi Spaceworks
http://www.anansispaceworks.com
P.O. Box 60583
Pasadena, CA 91116-6583
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