On 2020-04-23 09:19:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> This is controlled by the apt configuration options
>
> APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant
> APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant
>
> See apt.conf(5) for how to adjust these.
The user may want to keep Recommends.
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Vincent Lefèvre
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 22:13:36, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed
> automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that
> often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry
> Pi running Raspbian jessie:
[...]
On Wed 22 Apr 2020 at 22:13:36 (+0200), Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed
> automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that
> often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry
> Pi running Raspbian jess
On 2020-04-22 16:39:00 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> I don't find 'aptitude why' very reliable in a lot of cases.
Ditto.
> One thing I habitually do nowadays, to minimize this type of problem, is
> to also run
>
> # apt-get remove $(deborphan)
>
> and interleave that back and forth with 'apt-get
The Wanderer writes:
> if you
> want to know "what's the dependency chain which is keeping this from
> being safe to remove?", you're probably better off running 'apt-get
> --dry-run remove [packagename]', and seeing whether the result wants to
> remove anything that you care about.
Well, I usua
On 2020-04-22 at 16:13, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Debian's package management should remove packages that were
> installed automatically, if they are no longer needed.
> Unfortunately, that often seems to not work correctly. See this
> example on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian jessie:
>
> Some ti
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