On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > @Balint re "@Jarno: IMO Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies > is already a risky option and I don't recommend enabling it because it > may remove packages which are not used according the to package- > dependency chain but which users rely on using software that is not > packaged." > > Could you give me an example of how people would install dependencies > for software that is not package that would also set the > "is_auto_removable" flag in the apt cache to True? I can't think of a > situation like this.
I had the opposite situation in my mind. People would remove packages which are not auto removable, like ubuntu-desktop (for example because something ubuntu-desktop depends on is acting badly) and then many package in ubuntu-desktop's dependency change become auto removable: $ sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: a11y-profile-manager-indicator activity-log-manager adium-theme-ubuntu aisleriot app-install-data-partner apturl apturl-common baobab bluez-cups ... xorg Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: ubuntu-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7 not upgraded. After this operation, 46,1 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] It is a simpler problematic situation than the one I originally mentioned, u-u would remove software which is probably in use, no additional software is broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624644 Title: By default settings unattended-upgrade is unable to automatically remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1624644/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
