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

[Dave Vincenty]

Mike Leone wrote:
> Can you expand ?. So they're marked as "AutoInstalled"; that doesn't 
> explain (to me) why that means that now they can be deleted.

I think the idea is that, if you didn't ask for a package, and that 
package isn't being used for anything, as far as the system can tell, 
then it's just taking up space on your drive, and so it has a "feature" 
of removing it for you.

Now, let's see here...

girardhenri at free.fr wrote:
> They are dependencies
> they don' works with new stuff

Possibility #1:  A lot of these packages really do need to be removed.  
That might be true, although...

Derek Broughton wrote:
> "apt" doesn't think anything needs to be removed.  You have now got it back into a consistent state. aptitude has it's own tools for figuring out (better) what needs to be kept, but that relies on having installed with aptitude in the first place.  That said, passing that entire list to "aptitude unmarkauto" would fix aptitude.

It seems like all those packages depended on kubuntu-desktop, as the 
first response I got said, but aptitude is doing its own thing and, 
actually, the reason I don't use aptitude much anymore is because I once 
accidentally allowed it to autoremove 100 "unused" packages, some of 
which apparently, my X server couldn't start without, and then I went 
GUI-less for a while.

So... I guess this is a non-issue.  If I decide I could use some free 
hard drive space, I'll have to figure out for myself what to remove.

Thanks for your help again, everybody!


~~~ dave ~~~

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