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#620
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
Here's the simplest answer to your question: if you at any time accepted the warning given in the preamble to all descriptions of how to enable Extras-devel or Extras-testing repository, and installed one or more apps from those repositories, you should know about it. And those are the only candidates if you've got unoptified packages installed. If in doubt, uninstall all the ones you installed from the testing and development repos.
I know I know. I´m just curious about how this system works. I do know that if i install programs from those repositories I´m "obligated" to make bug raports and not to whine

Now, if your question is how do you know which packages are the offenders when looking through your root partition and finding large files, the dpkg -S is what you want.

dpkg -S /opt/bounce/bin/bounce

returns:
bounce

Which is the name of the package that file belongs to. Obviously this is a trivial case, but it is useful if you are browsing through your rootfs and find a big file, and want to know what package put it there.

"Bounce" is not a filename anywhere on your system, which is why it didn't return anything. "bounce" would have returned a bunch of entries, most of them (not surprising) belonging to the bounce package.

This post and the one it quoted may also be useful for you if you are trying to track down the culprits:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=19

But the easiest way to be sure, as i said, is to remove anything in testing or development.
So this just confirms what I was afraid. It is just how system works or is made? I do have pclos installed on my computer and one of the biggest grief for me as windows user is that after uninstalls and installs it gradually fills with different kind of libraries. With google you can find 1+n different stories how to handle unused files and libs that do not have any dependyces left, but on the another hand there is same amount of user telling that you should not touch and just buy more space and do not think about how files are scattered across filesystem because that's too complicated. And I have to say that this is true it's too complicated at least for me :| Single books are not scattered across my bookself :P Sorry for bad example but that's how i see this.

But thank you. Now i know another command which does one or another thing and I will look in that script.

..edit
Originally Posted by egoshin
BTW, the solution "remove applications installed from Extras-devel or Extras-testing" does not work actually - most of them pulls HUGE libraries to root file space and that libraries are NOT automatically removed by application removal. You should target it specifically with red pill ON + careful research of packages dependencies OR use 'dpkg autoremove' from X-Terminal root shell... with some luck...
So yep. This is same thing what I have also learnt from different distros. So I´m on constant velocity to reflash (using extras testing and development)

Last edited by slender; 2010-01-12 at 07:56.