"Morel Bérenger" wrote at 2013-02-25 03:18 -0600:
> Le Dim 24 février 2013 23:02, Alois Mahdal a écrit :
> > * Do we want to count dependencies? How deep (we don't want
> > to count libc* 10000 times, do we)?
> >
> > * Do we want to separately address
> > * `purge`able ~/.app-data?
> > * /etc/app/settings?
> > * /var/logs/app?
> >
> >
> > * Or are we looking for more sophisticated advice like "hey,
> > do you know that libhuge is required only by this hardlyeverused-app"?
> > ("think about upgrade costs, dude!")
>
> > Typical use case is when one is running out of disk space
> > on / or /usr/. Such tool could be applied in much wider sense, though.
>
> Using aptitude with it's gui will give you those data.
aptitude only provides per-package compressed/installed sizes
(probably not including any config/log files generated by the package)
and sizes for applying a package set change (eg. when upgrading). I
do not know of a way to obtain sophisticated information about the
disk space a package requires, as in the examples and scenarios
quoted; it certainly would at times be useful to have such a utility.
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