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Re: Trimming the fat off an installation



On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:14 +0100, andy wrote:
> I found a whole bunch of files or rather a long-list of entries like:
> 
> 0 0 libpoppler0c2-qt <NOFILES>
> 0 0 libsdl-pango1 <NOFILES>
> 0 0 kdenetwork-kfile-plugins <NOFILES>
> 0 0 libnetcdf3 <NOFILES>
> 0 0 libtotem-plparser1 <NOFILES>
> 
> Am I correct in understanding that these list packages against which
> no recent use entries are recorded in the log files? Would this be a
> good program to run against deporphan or does one identify specific
> packages that show up in this list to run through an "apt-get remove
> --purge" routine?

From the README of popularity-contest, (see also the FAQ)

        NOFILES means that no files in the package seemed to be programs, so
        <atime>, <ctime>, and <mru-program> are invalid.

So those packages may, or may not be, still in heavy use.


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Sven Arvidsson
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