I have recently installed Trisquel 6.0.1 on a Desktop. After Installation I upgraded the whole system from Terminal via $apt-get update and $apt-get dist-upgrade commands.

After this I gave $apt-get autoremove, a command usually used to remove packages which have no dependancy with any other installed package. To my surprise, a list consisting of somewhat between 10-25 packages seemed to be having no dependancies with any of installed packages(or orphanaged packages).

Is it safe to remove these orphanaged packages? How do the community looks at this issue?

I have earlier used Debian, but never faced the issue with orphanaged packages with it. It seems that package dependencies were not fully resolved while developing packages from Ubuntu main repos.

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