Slávek Banko wrote on 3/3/20 11:29 AM: > Dne út 3. března 2020 Dan Youngquist napsal(a): >> On 03/03/2020 09:18 AM, D. R. Evans wrote: >>> 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. > > 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 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]. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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