On Sb, 22 sep 12, 10:38:47, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > When I run the command "apt-get autoremove" it wants to remove 115 > packages, for example "network-manager, network-manager-gnome, > software-center, update-manager-core, update-manager-gnome, > update-notifier, > update-notifier-common". > > But I don't want to remove these because I think they are important > system packages. Don't they are? > > Why autroremove wants to remove they now?
You probably removed some (meta)package that depended on those packages.
> I was know that autoremove usually helps cleaning my system safely so
> I used it a lot before without problem.
If it were so safe the operation would have been performed
automatically, don't you think[1]?
It's not going to destroy your system[2], but I wouldn't run the
sequence
apt-get autoremove && apt-get clean
from a cronjob ;)
[1] aptitude does, but it can be argued that it's primary mode of
operation is the interactive one, where the admin can still decide to
mark some packages as manually installed before proceeding.
[2] e.g. Essential: yes packages will never be removed in the default
configuration
Kind regards,
Andrei
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