APT Is Nagging Me To Remove Things I Don't Want To Remove

[girardhenri at free.fr]

May be another version of gimp can be updated?
use aptitude and see if it wants to remove these files ?
you can always reinstall gimp after ?


Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Dave Vincenty wrote:
>   
>> Here's something I've wanted to ask for a while.
>>
>> Okay, I've been  getting a message when I run "apt-get":
>>     
>>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
>>> required:
>>>       
> <snip long list of apps>
>   
>>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>>>       
>> Now, this is a long list, and it tells me this EVERY time I use APT for 
>> anything.  I know a few of these are things that were left over after I 
>> purged KDE 4.0.0 from my system, and I'm sure a lot of what's on this 
>> list could be removed without me even noticing the difference, but 
>> "alsa-tools-gui"?  Don't I need that to, like, change volume when I'm 
>> not in KDE?  And I certainly don't want to get rid of 
>> "xscreensaver-gl-extra" and lose my beautiful bouncing cow.  Plus, I've 
>> always wanted to start up SuperKaramba and see if I actually need it for 
>> anything.
>>
>> So my question is ... is there a way to make it stop telling me to 
>> remove packages?  And if I really do need to remove packages, can I pull 
>> up a list to autoremove, but pick which ones I want to keep?
>>
>> Alternatively, maybe there is something I installed (an optional add-on 
>> to APT?) that's meant to remove unused packages to maximize my hard 
>> drive space.  I don't think I want to remove such a function ... simply 
>> to make it shut up and have it only offer polite suggestions when I 
>> decide to see them.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> ~~~ dave ~~~
>>
>> --
>> Have you mooed today?
>>
>>     
> I'm coming in late to this thread but for interest sake I just did an 
> 'sudo apt-get update'
> 'sudo apt-get install neverball'
> and I got:
>
> nigel at nigels:~$ sudo apt-get install neverball
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>    libwmf0.2-7 libgsf-1-common libcroco3 gimp librsvg2-2 gimp-data 
> libgsf-1-114
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    neverdata
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    neverball neverdata
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 14.6MB of archives.
> After unpacking 32.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
> Why would apt want to remove the gimp? I use it all the time! And what 
> about the other packages - I probably need them too - and if not how do 
> I know? How can I trust apt if it is wanting to remove the gimp that I 
> do need?!
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
>
>