Julian Andres Klode: > It just happens that some of the newly installed dependencies are also > Suggested by other installed packages, and thus are not removed, > because you might have installed the package in order to extend the > functionality of another installed package suggesting it. sudo apt-get install cortina -y sudo apt-get purge cortina -y sudo apt-get autoremove -yResult: the recommended dependencies installed only during this operation are not removed. Now we have the GNOME Display Manager, and also plenty of extra wallpapers, among others.
Ralf Mardorf at <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>: > autoremove could consider recommended dependencies as automatically > installed, but likely already now some users complain that autoremove > uninstalls software they still want to use.So the root cause is in autoremove, not in the package management. Just taking one specimen using the above example:
- Installing cortina installs the gnome-shell as dependency - gnome-shell installs gdm as recommended packages - gdm installs the gnome-icon-theme as recommended packageSo using autoremove without touching the recommended packages will leave plenty of stuff there, in a fashion that is costly to trace back.
Ralf Mardorf > Already now some users complain that autoremove uninstalls software > they still want to use.I think that if an user wants to install something to stay there, they will do explicitly and not through a third package.
More surprising is that the "install" and "remove" buttons do not act on the same software.
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