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Sometimes I wonder about a package and its dependencies, and more specifically the (installed) size of it all. For a simple list of a package's dependencies, pactree is a great tool that does the job fine.
But when I'm wondering about the size, something else is needed. In fact, quite a few times I've found myself doing a `pacman -S/-Rs package` in order to know either how much size a package (and its "exclusive" (as in not needed by any other packages) dependencies) are eating up, or how much would be needed to install them.
This isn't, however, an ideal solution, obviously. It does require root privileges, even though I don't go through with the transaction, and adds useless entry in pacman.log So I started thinking about it a bit, fast-forward a little and here comes pacdep.
pacdep is a small tool that will allow you to quickly see how much space is being used/required by a package (and its dependencies). By default, it will give the installed size of the package, its exclusive dependencies, and its shared dependencies; Optional dependencies can be included as well. You can have dependencies of a group listed, in which case the packages name and installed size will be shown.
There's also a reverse mode, to go the other way around and list packages that (optionaly) require the specified packages.
Quick example:
% pacdep -eo git
git 17.24 MiB ( 20.71 MiB)
Exclusive dependencies: 2.76 MiB
perl-convert-binhex 56.00 KiB
perl-error 76.00 KiB
perl-io-socket-ssl 140.00 KiB
perl-io-stringy 148.00 KiB
perl-mailtools 204.00 KiB
perl-net-ssleay 1.93 MiB
perl-timedate 228.00 KiB
Optional dependencies: 732.00 KiB
perl-authen-sasl 188.00 KiB
perl-mime-tools 500.00 KiB
perl-net-smtp-ssl 44.00 KiB
Shared dependencies: 20.09 MiB
Total dependencies: 23.57 MiB ( 40.81 MiB)Links:
- Slightly more verbose description w/ a few examples
- Source code
- PKGBUILD in the AUR
Hopefully someone may find it useful; And of course bug reports, suggestions or any other form of constructive criticism is very much welcome.
Cheers,
-jacky
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