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Bug#537450: apt: Don't advertize autoremove on every invocation



Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:49:24PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Version: 0.7.21
>> Severity: wishlist
>
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>  
>> I don't think it's necessary to advertize autoremove on every invocation.
>
> There is a option that can be used to hide it:
>
> APT::Get::HideAutoRemove "false";
>
> I think its pretty useful to show it by default, otherwise the
> autoremove feature is hard to discover. And unless there are bugs, it
> really does show stuff that is no longer needed.
>
> Cheers,
>  Michael

Maybe there could be a 

APT::Get::HideAutoRemove "short";

that would just give a number of removable packages instead of a full
list.

MfG
        Goswin



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