On 2024-04-22 03:19:36 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2024-04-21 12:03:05 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> > Controlling autoremoval behaviour is `APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant`
> > which defaults to `true` as the autoremover could potentially break some
> > usecase for you that the suggests enabled and you have grown attached to
> > even through the suggests was once installed for another reason.
>
> OK, I had actually that on my old machines, but for some reason,
> I didn't remember that and didn't notice that this was missing on
> new machines (and there was a bug in my script that checked the
> consistency of the config between machines).
I meant that I had
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false";
in a config file on old machines (added 6 years ago), but this
file was missing on the new machines, and I did not remember of
the existence of this setting because:
> But the fact that this is a hidden setting did not help, i.e. it is
> not mentioned in the documentation (apt(8), apt-get(8), apt.conf(5),
> apt-config(8) man pages, APT User's Guide), while the description of
> "apt autoremove" is misleading ("dependencies" is used twice in the
> same sentence with 2 different meanings!).
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