Public bug reported: After an upgrade to 17.10, I took a look at how much cruft I had accumulated on my system, and started marking various packages 'auto' which I know I don't care about keeping installed.
apt autoremove didn't remove nearly as much stuff as I expected, and as I dug down into some of them I found that a number of them were being kept because other packages on the system have Suggests: referencing them. This is asymmetric and wrong. If Suggested packages are not automatically installed by default, then a Suggests should also not prevent a package from being automatically removed. After a web search led me to 'https://askubuntu.com/questions/351085 /how-to-remove-recommended-and-suggested-dependencies-of-uninstalled- packages', I set 'APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false"' in my apt config; apt autoremove now wants to remove 365MiB of packages from my system. That is a LOT of cruft that has accumulated over the years of upgrades, none of which I have ever asked to be installed and all of which were universe or no-longer-available packages. ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: New ** Tags: rls-bb-incoming ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Tags added: rls-bb-incoming -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725861 Title: APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false" should be the default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1725861/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
