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Bug#975426: marked as done (Package:apt remove package and apt autoremove does not remove dependencies.)

Your message dated Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:24:16 +0100
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Package: apt

Hello.
Here are the 3 commands that I ran:

apt install xfce4
apt remove xfce4
apt autoremove

However I can still run xfce (by running Xorg) and apt list --installed | grep xfce yields like 10 packages.

Could you please confirm whether this is a bug or unexpected behaviour? If so I can send more data about my setup and we can pinpoint the issue.

Thank you.







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On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:27:45AM -0300, Tomas wrote:
> Package: apt
> 
> Hello.
> Here are the 3 commands that I ran:
> 
> apt install xfce4
> apt remove xfce4
> 
> apt autoremove
> 
> 
> 
> However I can still run xfce (by running Xorg) and apt list --installed | grep xfce yields like 10 packages.

It is normal and expected that some people will remain when installing a
package, removing it, and running autoremove, as packages are not only
kept around by dependencies, but also Recommends, and Suggests - the
latter which are not installed automatically.

You can remove more packages in autoremove by setting the option
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant to 0, or even more by setting
APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant to 0 (not recommended at all); but
be aware that this might cause some other packages to lose functionality
you might have come to rely upon (e.g., A suggests B and you remove B,
and now A has different behavior which you did not expect).

In the future, I plan to introduce an `apt revert` command which lets
you revert transactions still recorded in /var/log/apt/history.log,
which would solve a lot of these temporarily installed issues more
adequately.
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