[GTALUG] Ubuntu (or debian): apt-get auto-remove?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:04:39AM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
> I wouldn't completely trust autoremove, as once it tried to
> automatically remove X-related packages from my desktop system.
> 
> I figured the way autoremove works -- it gives a best guess of what is
> not needed, but that guess can sometimes be wrong, you should always
> review the package list and be extra suspicious when apt-get tries to
> remove hundreds of packages. Generally, system works well for removing
> old versions of libraries.

There is no guessing involved.

Now if you remove something somehow that means the rest of your desktop
is no longer explicitly installed or required by something explicitly
installed, then yes it will think it should be removed, since that is
in fact correct for the currently requested packages.  Simple enough to
fix by just saying:

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Len Sorensen