[Popcon-developers] Bug#414865: popularity-contest: popcon-largest-unused should have option to report only on orphans

[Eric Lavarde]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.40
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

I've recently installed popularity-contest and I find the idea of using
popcon-largest-unused in order to trim down my packages attractive.
Nevertheless it would be much more useful if there would be an option to
only report on packages required/recommended/suggested by no others
(optionally: unless they are themselves unused and don't depend on other
packages; this becomes a recursive story).

Thanks, Eric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.13.25    package maintenance system for Deb

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.63-17    metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.63-17    lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  mime-construct                <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true