Sometimes, especially when disk space is low (or when system backups grow unreasonably large), it’s nice to know exactly how much space the biggest packages occupy. Obviously, OpenOffice is never above suspicion, but certain others can take up way more space than you would think.

I wrote a little script to print the size of all packages installed on the system. It uses the CONTENTS file for every installed ebuild to check the size of the files which belong to a package and give a sorted listing of packages by size.

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