On Fri January 15 2021 00:35:15 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote:
Greetings all;
While installing a firewall rule manager that needed ipset, apt advised me of a rather lengthy list of stuff I should "apt autoremove"
The list: The following packages will be REMOVED: amor-trinity arts-trinity blinken-trinity cervisia-trinity cvs desktop-base-trinity edict eyesapplet-trinity fifteenapplet-trinity flac fonts-dustin gnuift gnuift-perl indi-trinity juk-trinity kaboodle-trinity kalzium-data-trinity kalzium-trinity kanagram-trinity kanjidic kappfinder-trinity kasteroids-trinity katomic-trinity kaudiocreator-trinity kbackgammon-trinity kbattleship-trinity kblackbox-trinity kbounce-trinity kbruch-trinity kcoloredit-trinity kcron-trinity kdat-trinity kdvi-trinity keduca-trinity kenolaba-trinity kfax-trinity kfaxview-trinity kfouleggs-trinity kgamma-trinity kgeography-data-trinity kgeography-trinity kgoldrunner-trinity khangman-trinity kig-trinity kimagemapeditor-trinity kiten-trinity kjumpingcube-trinity klatin-trinity klettres-data-trinity klettres-trinity klickety-trinity klines-trinity klinkstatus-trinity klipper-trinity kmahjongg-trinity kmenuedit-trinity kmines-trinity kmoon-trinity kmplot-trinity kmrml-trinity knetwalk-trinity knetworkconf-trinity kodo-trinity kolf-trinity kolourpaint-trinity kommander-trinity konquest-trinity kpackage-trinity kpat-trinity kpercentage-trinity kpoker-trinity kpovmodeler-trinity krec-trinity kreversi-trinity kruler-trinity ksame-trinity kscd-trinity kshisen-trinity ksirtet-trinity ksmiletris-trinity ksnake-trinity ksnapshot-trinity ksokoban-trinity kspaceduel-trinity kstars-data-trinity kstars-trinity ksysguard-trinity ksysguardd-trinity ksysv-trinity kteatime-trinity ktip-trinity ktouch-trinity ktron-trinity ktuberling-trinity kturtle-trinity ktux-trinity kuser-trinity kverbos-trinity kview-trinity kviewshell-trinity kvoctrain-trinity kwordquiz-trinity kxsldbg-trinity libarts1-audiofile-trinity libarts1-xine-trinity libcvsservice0-trinity libgnuift0c2a libhpmud0 libkiten1-trinity libminizip1 libmrml1c2a libpoppler-tqt libre2-3 libtdeedu3-trinity libtiff-tools libtqt3-integration-trinity libxml-handler-trees-perl libxml-writer-perl lskat-trinity poster quanta-data-trinity quanta-trinity sudo-trinity synaptic-trinity tdeadmin-tdefile-plugins-trinity tdeadmin-trinity tdeartwork-style-trinity tdeartwork-theme-icon-trinity tdeartwork-theme-window-trinity tdeartwork-trinity tdeedu-data-trinity tdeedu-trinity tdefilereplace-trinity tdegames-card-data-trinity tdegames-trinity tdegraphics-tdefile-plugins-trinity tdegraphics-trinity tdeiconedit-trinity tdelibs-trinity tdemid-trinity tdemultimedia-kappfinder-data-trinity tdemultimedia-tdefile-plugins-trinity tdemultimedia-trinity tdescreensaver-trinity tdescreensaver-xsavers-trinity tdetoys-trinity tdewallpapers-trinity tdewebdev-trinity ttf-sjfonts twin4-trinity vorbis-tools xcalib xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-gl 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 154 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 227 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
obviously I answered n as it didn't look safe for tde.
Can it be safely allowed?
You don't say which distro you're running but I'm guessing from that list that you're running Debian Jessie or Stretch. I'd also guess that at some point in time you installed some high level TDE meta packages and subsequently removed them.
The answer to your question is if you need the space look at the description of each package suggested for autoremoval and see if you need it. Hopefully you don't need the space in which case you can just ignore the suggestions.
We don't know what you need and can't tell you what you should keep.
--Mike