apt-get not updating GUI packages?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:00:11 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>It will prompt you before it removes anything, so you can review the
>list of packages to be removed and say "no" if there's anything you
>don't approve of there.

The "-y, --yes, --assume-yes" switch used by Liam's example could
remove packages that are considered as non-essential packages.