On 2026-06-12 18:07:56 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > By default, a Suggests relationship from an explicitly installed package > blocks autoremoval.
I have APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"; The reason is that in general, when a Recommends is changed to Suggests, this is because either the Recommends was actually a mistake or the package that was recommended is no longer really necessary. Another reason is the case where a package was installed due to some dependency, and without the above setting, it is not removed when this dependency disappears and another package has a Suggests on it. Thus keeping Suggests has various drawbacks so that I had added this option in the past to get rid of such useless packages (including a useless broken daemon that was affecting my system: bug 901605). Perhaps having APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant set to true makes sense on Debian/stable machines, but on a Debian/sid machine, where one often installs and removes packages, this is just bad. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
