Often, I wish I could extract certain information out of the package database, such as the size, age, and distribution the package came from. This would make it a lot easier when deciding what packages can be removed to make room for others (i.e. very old, too large, etc). Also which ones I ought to upgrade and so on. Right now I have packages from three separate Debian distributions, and probably a lot of stuff that's just taking up disk space.
It'd also be neat to be able to tell if a package is depended on by another, though that sounds much harder to do. It's clear that the data is in there, since apt-get can compute the consumed disk space of a potential installation before doing it. Does anyone know how to do this? Please CC. Thanks, Terry Hancock -- ------------------------------------------------------ Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com P.O. Box 60583 Pasadena, CA 91116-6583 ------------------------------------------------------
