Show your Top 10 space wasters ;-)

albersc2 · September 5, 2025, 1:03pm

In addition to satisfying your curiosity, you can learn a little Spanish here

yay -Ps
==> Versión de yay v12.5.0
===========================================
==> Número de paquetes instalados: 1389
==> Paquetes exteriores instalados: 9
==> Paquetes explícitamente instalados: 240
==> Tamaño total ocupado por los paquetes: 10.7 GiB
==> Tamaño del cache de pacman /var/cache/pacman/pkg/:4.5 GiB
==> Tamaño del cache de yay /home/sherlock/.cache/yay:4.0 KiB
===========================================
==> Diez paquetes más grandes:
nvidia-utils: 900.4 MiB
libreoffice-fresh: 415.1 MiB
brave-bin: 399.7 MiB
noto-fonts-extra: 331.8 MiB
noto-fonts-cjk: 298.8 MiB
lib32-nvidia-utils: 276.8 MiB
firefox: 263.6 MiB
rust: 263.2 MiB
qt6-webengine: 258.6 MiB
thunderbird: 252.9 MiB
===========================================

joekamprad · September 5, 2025, 1:27pm

they are huge font packages as of real multilanguagesupport

Schlaefer · September 5, 2025, 1:35pm

True. This is a trick I got from somewhere for pacman.conf which works great for basic Noto font support:

NoExtract = usr/share/fonts/noto/* !*NotoMono-* !*NotoSansDisplay-* !*NotoSansLinearB-* !*NotoSansMono-* !*NotoSansSymbols* !*NotoSerif-* !*NotoSerifDisplay-*

That said, let’s pull out the big gun …

LANG=C paru -Ps
paru v2.1.0 - libalpm v15.0.0
===========================================
Total installed packages: 2760
Aur packages: 125
Repo packages: 2635
Explicitly installed packages: 760
Total Size occupied by packages: 46.42 GiB
===========================================
Ten biggest packages:
intel-oneapi-basekit: 13.03 GiB
wine: 1.48 GiB
proton-ge-custom-bin: 1.34 GiB
python-onnxruntime: 1.21 GiB
onnxruntime: 1.17 GiB
microsoft-edge-stable-bin: 599.90 MiB
bruno-bin: 458.74 MiB
qt6-doc: 457.05 MiB
visual-studio-code-bin: 432.66 MiB
heroic-games-launcher-bin: 430.27 MiB
===========================================

joekamprad · September 5, 2025, 1:39pm

joekamprad · September 5, 2025, 1:43pm

font manager can help too

Moonbase59 · September 5, 2025, 2:15pm

Wild exclusion rules by @mbod, I should think.

Schlaefer · September 5, 2025, 2:27pm

Possible, I don’t remember where I got it, could be from here. Happy to attribute the source.

vazicebon · September 5, 2025, 2:46pm

I don’t remember why I used the AppImage , the thorium-reader-bin is the extraction of the Debian package.

Omig · September 5, 2025, 4:24pm

omig@kngdnEnOS ~$ yay -Ps
==> Yay version v12.5.0
===========================================
==> Total installed packages: 1399
==> Foreign installed packages: 32
==> Explicitly installed packages: 360
==> Total Size occupied by packages: 8.4 GiB
==> Size of pacman cache /var/cache/pacman/pkg/: 40.0 B
==> Size of yay cache /home/omig/.cache/yay: 52.1 MiB
===========================================
==> Ten biggest packages:
libreoffice-still: 412.0 MiB
bibata-cursor-theme-bin: 321.6 MiB
vtk: 308.8 MiB
firefox: 263.6 MiB
linux-headers: 244.7 MiB
clang: 210.1 MiB
gcc: 208.5 MiB
inkscape: 173.4 MiB
opencascade: 155.6 MiB
llvm-libs: 150.0 MiB
===========================================
 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: xplc
omig@kngdnEnOS ~$

The incredible size of bibata-cursor-theme-bin is something I’m going to change. Who needs so much cursor?

Cphusion · September 5, 2025, 4:31pm

The Steam client itself isn’t that big, it’s only your games that take up a lot of space and the games aren’t part of the installed package.

leo2170 · September 5, 2025, 6:24pm

yay -Ps
==> Yay version v12.5.0
===========================================
==> Total installed packages: 1403
==> Foreign installed packages: 25
==> Explicitly installed packages: 270
==> Total Size occupied by packages: 17.1 GiB
==> Size of pacman cache /var/cache/pacman/pkg/: 12.0 GiB
==> Size of yay cache /home/xxxxx/.cache/yay: 1.4 GiB
===========================================
==> Ten biggest packages:
meshroom-bin: 2.0 GiB
nvidia-utils: 886.1 MiB
apple-fonts: 555.9 MiB
jdk-openjdk: 499.7 MiB
unityhub: 466.4 MiB
libreoffice-fresh: 415.1 MiB
qgis: 390.5 MiB
blender: 341.2 MiB
noto-fonts-cjk: 298.8 MiB
intel-oneapi-openmp: 281.9 MiB
===========================================

Meshroom, Blender, Unity and QGIS are all software I installed for a postgraduate course I’m attending. intel-oneapi-openmp and jdk-openjdk are also required by software I installed for this purpose.

Svartis · September 5, 2025, 6:27pm

==> Yay-Version v12.5.0
===========================================
==> Insgesamt installierte Pakete: 1445
==> Installierte Fremdpakete: 8
==> Explizit installierte Pakete: 256
==> Gesamtgröße der installierten Pakete: 11.7 GiB
==> Größe des pacman-Cache /var/cache/pacman/pkg/: 18.3 GiB
==> Größe des yay-Cache /home/.../.cache/yay: 1.9 GiB
===========================================
==> Die zehn größten Pakete:
libreoffice-fresh: 415.1 MiB
chromium: 372.5 MiB
mullvad-vpn-bin: 353.9 MiB
noto-fonts-extra: 331.8 MiB
vtk: 308.8 MiB
freecad: 298.9 MiB
noto-fonts-cjk: 298.8 MiB
electron37: 282.2 MiB
firefox: 263.6 MiB
qt6-webengine: 258.6 MiB
===========================================

kwg · September 5, 2025, 6:48pm

$ LANG=C yay -Ps
==> Yay version v12.5.0
===========================================
==> Ten biggest packages:
zoom: 784.8 MiB
ttf-iosevka-term: 514.0 MiB
vivaldi: 417.2 MiB
libreoffice-fresh: 415.1 MiB
spotify: 327.9 MiB
firefox: 263.6 MiB
thunderbird: 252.9 MiB
linux-headers: 244.7 MiB
clang: 210.1 MiB
gcc: 208.5 MiB

rich52 · September 5, 2025, 8:18pm

yay -Ps
==> Yay version v12.5.0
===========================================
==> Total installed packages: 2065
==> Foreign installed packages: 37
==> Explicitly installed packages: 506
==> Total Size occupied by packages: 34.4 GiB
==> Size of pacman cache /var/cache/pacman/pkg/: 420.4 MiB
==> Size of yay cache /home/richardc/.cache/yay: 2.1 MiB
===========================================
==> Ten biggest packages:
rocm-llvm: 5.0 GiB
intellij-idea-community-edition: 1.9 GiB
pycharm-community-edition: 1.6 GiB
wine: 1.5 GiB
netbeans: 980.3 MiB
stellarium-qt5-bin: 623.0 MiB
julia: 601.7 MiB
shotcut-bin: 551.9 MiB
jdk21-openjdk: 500.7 MiB
jdk-openjdk: 499.7 MiB
===========================================

drunkenvicar · September 5, 2025, 8:36pm

keycloak wound up being a rundep of Java 21 which I installed as a dep to a package I compiled myself but never used. sudo pacman -Rns all the way

new output:==> Total installed packages: 1208
==> Foreign installed packages: 28
==> Explicitly installed packages: 265
==> Total Size occupied by packages: 10.6 GiB
==> Size of pacman cache /var/cache/pacman/pkg/: 6.5 GiB
==> Size of yay cache /home/brent/.cache/yay: 2.7 GiB==> Ten biggest packages:
trougnouf-backgrounds: 519.5 MiB
jdk11-openjdk: 481.0 MiB
libreoffice-fresh: 415.1 MiB
etcher-bin: 410.0 MiB
ungoogled-chromium-bin: 389.9 MiB
librewolf-bin: 373.3 MiB
noto-fonts-extra: 331.8 MiB
noto-fonts-cjk: 298.8 MiB
freetube-bin: 265.8 MiB
linux-headers: 244.7 MiB

do I need jdk 11? never mind it will go as well