On 2020-05-25 at 16:04, Marco Möller wrote: > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, > and right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn > in packages do not become removed automatically. The system is > swelling with no more wanted packages!
If I'm parsing you correctly: as I understand matters, this is because for all the package system knows, you might have started using the previously-Recommended package for some other reason, and removing it might leave you surprised when that other thing doesn't work anymore. The solution is to tell apt to remove all automatically-installed packages that don't have anything depending on them: $ apt autoremove You need to run this manually (or explicitly from within a wrapper script of some kind) after each removal, but that's not a major burden, and it avoids the "something broke that I didn't realize was installed as a recommendation" downside from above. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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