Re: Apt-get autoremove question
2012/9/22 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@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
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"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?
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