3 Mar
2020
3 Mar
'20
7:21 p.m.
Slávek Banko wrote on 3/3/20 11:29 AM:
Dne út 3. března 2020 Dan Youngquist napsal(a):
debian stable, kept up-to-date.
I was installing something this morning (I don't even remember what, after all
the kerfuffle of trying to get my desktop back), and as part of that process
was given a long list of packages that apt said I could safely remove by using
autoremove, and that would save >400MB. That's why I did it; I won't be doing
it again [as long as I remember this experience].
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On 03/03/2020 09:18 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
I do not assume that D.R. was confused and used the autoremove instead of
autoclean. Autoclean has a completely different task and has no effect on
the installed packages at all - it just clean in /var/cache/apt - and it
is usually better to use apt clean for that purpose anyway.
In any case, autoremove should be safe. I also commonly use it. Therefore,
I am concerned that this is at least the second occurence when it had
unexpected behavior.
What distribution and version do you use? The first thing that comes to my autoremove seems to have quite happily removed
some of the
actual installed binaries, not just no-longer-used .deb files.
That's what autoremove does. You're confusing it with autoclean, which
removes old package files that can no longer be downloaded. You might
want to reference the man page for apt-get.
Glad you got your desktop fixed.