2012/9/22 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com>: > 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 > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
"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 ;)" -> So I should leave these packages there and leave running these commands? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADH5RwCC=lpyn9svd9thylrmysp6h4eanc6rcpcmqmnqf-v...@mail.gmail.com