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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725861 Title: APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false" should be the default Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in apt source package in Bionic: Opinion Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Bionic: Triaged Bug description: After an upgrade to 17.10, I took a look at how much cruft I had accumulated on my system, and started marking various packages 'auto' which I know I don't care about keeping installed. apt autoremove didn't remove nearly as much stuff as I expected, and as I dug down into some of them I found that a number of them were being kept because other packages on the system have Suggests: referencing them. This is asymmetric and wrong. If Suggested packages are not automatically installed by default, then a Suggests should also not prevent a package from being automatically removed. After a web search led me to 'https://askubuntu.com/questions/351085 /how-to-remove-recommended-and-suggested-dependencies-of-uninstalled- packages', I set 'APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"' in my apt config; apt autoremove now wants to remove 365MiB of packages from my system. That is a LOT of cruft that has accumulated over the years of upgrades, none of which I have ever asked to be installed and all of which were universe or no-longer-available packages. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1725861/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
