On 1 August 2018 at 10:08, Göran Broström wrote: | When I upgraded my ubuntu 18.04 system today, I got to my surprise: | | ----------------------------------------------- | goran@M6800:~$ sudo apt upgrade | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Calculating upgrade... Done | The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer | required: | littler r-cran-littler r-cran-pkgkitten | Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. | ------------------------------------------------- | | (Why) should I remove them? Why are they 'no longer required'?
Educated guess, I am myself a little unsure here: - when installing, the dpkg / apt / ... suite now marks a package as directly installed (ie "user explicitly selected this"); I have seen this in a few packages when doing 'apt show ...' but I am not entirely sure where this is stored / how we can query and display it - packages only installed as a dependency get a false flag here and may get autoremoved which (I presume) aims and keeping the system tighter - if you either let it uninstall them and reinstall them explicitly they should be marked - all three are Suggests of r-cran-rcpp If anybody knows anything more concrete let us know. Hth, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian