Re: Suggestion: xtime as new inode attribute

Daniel Poelzleithner
2009-12-18T09:28:12Z

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Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:

>> If a linux installation gets older and older, more and more programs get
>> installed over time. Mostly to just test them for a particular problem
>> and often the deinstallation is forgotten. To find out which packages
>> are not used for a long time is currently quite impossible. The user may
>> use program X which will run but not depend on program Y as a subprocess
>> for example.
>>
>> The solution:
>
>
> Perhaps something like the "Debian package Popularity Contest":
> http://popcon.debian.org/

I think you missunderstood my intension. I wasn't thinking about a
distribution but the installation on a system. All my systems grow in
installed packages over time, i think that is something every hard core
user experiences.
You test 4-5 programs for a new task you have to do, but over time you
only use 1-2 of them and simply forget you installed some more programs
for this.
With xtime there is a very clean way to find which packages are
installed and are never used for a long time and can therefore suggested
to the user to be uninstalled. The cleanup script of course will highly
depend on the package system used and how the packages are organized and
named.

kindly regards
Daniel

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