Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages
On 2020-04-22 16:39:00 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> I don't find 'aptitude why' very reliable in a lot of cases.
Ditto.
> One thing I habitually do nowadays, to minimize this type of problem, is
> to also run
>
> # apt-get remove $(deborphan)
>
> and interleave that back and forth with 'apt-get autoremove' calls until
> neither one of them wants to remove anything anymore.
I do this too, but for deborphan, I use: deborphan --ignore-suggests
Now, I think that alternatives and "Provides" can confuse the
resolvers.
To know why a package is not proposed for autoremoval while it should,
I suppose that a solution is to look at the apt-get trace, e.g.
apt-get -o Debug::pkgAutoRemove=true -s autoremove
Good luck debugging this. :)
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