Hi, Quoting Julian Andres Klode (2015-12-21 13:43:41) > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 01:35:21PM +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > > Julian Andres Klode: > > > It just happens that some of the newly installed dependencies are also > > > Suggested by other installed packages, and thus are not removed, > > > because you might have installed the package in order to extend the > > > functionality of another installed package suggesting it. > > > > sudo apt-get install cortina -y > > sudo apt-get purge cortina -y > > sudo apt-get autoremove -y > > > > Result: the recommended dependencies installed only during this operation > > are not removed. Now we have the GNOME Display Manager, and also plenty of > > extra wallpapers, among others. > > This is intended. Some other packages that were previously installed > merely suggest gdm, so the end result is that the package will stay > installed. > > If you don't want that, you can set > APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant > to false.
it is maybe also worth mentioning that since apt 1.1.5 and fixing of Debian bug #807413 this setting (AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant and AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant) is semi-documented in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz cheers, josch
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