[Popcon-developers] Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

[Christophe Lohr]

Carsten Hey a écrit :
>> On my system, popcon-largest-unused reports 967 <OLD> packets!
>> According to my script popcon-nodependency, 475 of them are orphaned...
>>     
>
> Better ask "combine <(deborphan ..." as described in my last mail,
>   

Well, the score is: 303... It's still a lot ;-)

>> orphaner sorts packets by name. It is interesting to quickly find
>> a packet which we know the name. However I wonder if orphan could not
>> provide advanced features (in a sub-menu) such as: search a packet in
>> the list, select all to on, select all to off, reverse the selection,
>> etc. But it will become very complicated! ;-)
>>     
>
> This is a shell script which uses dialog, adding a submenu without the
> possibility to add more buttons (dialog only supports four buttons)
> would be very complicated to implement and even more complicated to use.
> So no, I don't think adding such things is reasonable without dialog
> being extended first.
>   
Yes, maybe such features could be provided by dialog itself (as short
keys for instance)

Regards