Flatsonar

Purclean

by Byoval Studio

System cleaner for Fedora Linux

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v0.1.0
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About

Purclean helps you reclaim disk space on Fedora by finding and removing old kernels, Flatpak and Snap caches, AppImage files, large downloads, systemd journal logs, orphaned packages, browser caches, thumbnail caches, DNF package cache, Docker/Podman data, and duplicate files.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • authorisation (polkit)
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • access to /var/cache/dnf
    --filesystem=/var/cache/dnf:ro
  • access to /var/snap
    --filesystem=/var/snap:ro
  • access to /var/tmp/flatpak-cache
    --filesystem=/var/tmp/flatpak-cache:ro
  • access to /var/log
    --filesystem=/var/log:ro
  • sets environment variable GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
    --env=GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=/app/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • hosted by github.com/byoval, which owns the com.github namespace of com.github.byoval.purclean
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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