Is there any way to permanently neuter apt-get autoremove, so that even if something invokes it against my will, it will *never* remove anything?
And more, is there a way to get apt and apt-get to *stop* prompting me to run it, and *stop* spamming me with a list of packages that it would like me to remove? (Maybe that's the same as the first question, maybe not.) My strategy so far has been "ignore the spam, and never willingly run autoremove". This mostly works, but I recently learned that tasksel will apparently run an autoremove, without warning, whether I want it to or not (<http://bugs.debian.org/868892>). If autoremove will also remove *kernels*, which this thread seems to indicate is the case, then my concerns just went up another notch. I suppose one could manually mark each and every single installed package as "manually installed", but you'd have to remember to repeat this periodically, and it seems clumsy and inelegant compared to some sort of master switch that can just tell autoremove to go die in a fire.
