If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these; particulaly losing apt would be a disaster. Anyone else seeing this behaviour? AC
I think these are 'meta-packages' and can be safely removed. http://wiki.debian.org/tasksel"Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required dependencies."
but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a lot), be careful to verify first. So leave them alone till you're sure.
Cheers