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I noticed my installation is getting larger and larger with a lot of files I don't use and forgot to uninstall and even worse dependencies. Is there a program out there that searches for packages that aren't used. I hope for something that can search by date and that I don't have to know what I'm searching for in advance.
My solution is to run KDirStat, in order to get an overview as to what is taking up space.
Once, my home directory was being eaten up. I found that I had a program that was spitting out a horrendous about of logs. There were a few 1GB log files in my home!
If you're using Mandrake, there is a program that will find the "usused" packages, that is: packages that are not needed by any other packages. It is called something like "urpmi_find_leaves".
Any package pointed out by this program can safely be deleted (urpme), unless it is needed by a NON-packaged program (something you compiled yourself).
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