Why not simply only suggest the packages for removing which "sudo apt- get autoremove" would remove? It never suggested for me to remove any manufacturer-supplied printer drivers or other third-party packages.
Your suggestion to whitelist the packages which are installed without using apt does not help for printer drivers auto-installed with Jockey, as these get also installed via apt. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458872 Title: Don't mark for removal manually installed packages -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
