Just was playing a bit with lma's script (thanks!), and got some results. This isn't the complete list (just some packages I tested), sure there are hundreds of packages more with the same problem. Also, I reported bugs where I did can. Sorry for the bad format, it's Sunday morning and I need to go to get some beer. ... Other bugs related to save space in the filesystem, but not in 3rd party applications: Store system logs in /opt: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5749 symlink /var/cache/apt/archives to /home/apt-archives: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5746