Have a question about automatic dependencies. I just updated my sid machine, as more and more of KDE 4.11 was uploaded this week. Well, when I did, I got the following during the dist-upgrade:
Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: akonadiconsole akregator amor ark avogadro-data blinken blogilo bomber bovo cantor cervisia crda cvs cvsservice dnsmasq-base dragonplayer easy-rsa gnugo ...snip... step svgpart sweeper texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc translate-toolkit umbrello usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data valgrind valgrind-dbg vpnc wireless-regdb wpasupplicant Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. I am deathly afraid to apt-get autoremove, because I see a lot of things in there that I use, such as akregator, gwenview, kwalletmanager, network-manager, etc. I did a quick check, using apt-file, thinking that maybe the package name for the app might have changed: $ apt-file search /usr/bin/akregator akregator: /usr/bin/akregator akregator: /usr/bin/akregatorstorageexporter kdepim-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/akregator kdepim-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/akregatorstorageexporter But they didn't as far as I can tell. So is this for real, and if I apt-get autoremove, it will gut my system, or am I missing some detail and it's all good? Thanks, --b