[GTALUG] Ubuntu (or debian): apt-get auto-remove?
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Thu Aug 13 14:57:09 UTC 2015
After my update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, apt-get tells me that there
are a lot of packages that apt-get auto-remove could remove.
Is that safe? What is the underlying idea?
I think that it removes things that were added due to dependencies where
those dependencies no longer exist. In the back of my mind, I worry that
sometimes dependencies might be things that I wanted independently of why
they were installed, but I'm not sure of that.
Do people fine apt-get auto-remove works great or do you find that it
throws a few babies out with the bathwater?
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