On 30 Aug 2002 08:50:13 -0700 Tom Nielsen <tom@neuro-logic.com> wrote:
Is there a program that will tell me about all my installed packages and how often I use them?
The reason is that when I installed Suse, I put almost everything on my drive. Now that I'm becoming more familiar with the programs, and getting low on space, I'd like to ditch what I don't need, but I want to know if it's been used lately.
Your best bet is to go into yast-> remove programs, and go thru the list of installed packages. Start removing those you have no recollection of, you will get a dependency warning on some, but you can use your best judgement and "override" the dependencies warning. If you do accidently remove something you need, you can go back and install that rpm. I really get fed up with those dependencies. If you want to install some sound rpm, you can't do it without installing some never-used dependent rpm, because someone-somewhere might want to use that function. What really drives me nuts, is that yast will automatically keep reinserting rpms into the install list. You will get a dependency warning, uncheck all of them, then yast will prompt you again ever time you change catagories. In this respect, yast is very lousy. Maybe the newer version of yast is better, I'm still on 7.2. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation