Re: Cost of packages in disk space?
For simple per-package results, "dpigs" from debian-goodies gives you what you
want (and is little more than a one-liner similar to what was posted by another
to this thread, internally.)
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.
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