Re: apt autoremove

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

There are reasons that packages sometimes are installed automatically as
a dependency and there are reasons that such packages aren't needed
anymore. The only reason that comes to mind, when a package management
is "mistaken" is, if a package was installed automatically as a
dependency, then the user installed software not by a package, e.g. by
"make install" and this software needs such a package as a dependency,
while it isn't needed by any package anymore. If such a package would be
installed by the user and not automatically, as a "temporary"
dependency, the package management would care about it.

IOW if you didn't install something without a correct build package, it
should be safe to remove those packages.