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Predictions for 2007 (and how I did on 2006) (LinuxWorld)
Predictions for 2007 (and how I did on 2006) (LinuxWorld)
Posted Dec 27, 2006 11:39 UTC (Wed) by Arker (guest, #14205)Parent article: Predictions for 2007 (and how I did on 2006) (LinuxWorld)
Uninstalling packages that aren't being used seems like a good idea, but it raises the question, why are those packages installed in the first place?
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Predictions for 2007 (and how I did on 2006) (LinuxWorld)
Posted Dec 27, 2006 13:44 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
If you enter "apt-get install A" where A depends on B that was not installed, then apt-get asks if you wish to install B. Now, if you later execute "apt-get remove A", then only A would be removed. Thus the idea to record those automatically installed packages and have an option to remove them.
Predictions for 2007 (and how I did on 2006) (LinuxWorld)
Posted Dec 27, 2006 13:47 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Dependencies (as parent said). Example: you install scribus. That pulls in qt (and other stuff) as a dependency. You don't like scribus, and remove it. But this does not remove qt. apt-get autoremove will recognise that you didn't ask to install qt, you only got it as a dependency, and will remove it (unless, in the meantime, you installed something else that depends on qt).