Hello, On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 05:15:58PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-05-15 17:13:31 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > No, aptitude removes automatically installed packages for which > > there are no longer any dependencies. > > And there's also "apt autoremove", which I also use. The issue > for net-tools is that there is still a dependency (Recommends) > from pbuilder.
Ah okay, my mistake. I only ever use the "aptitude why" part of aptitude. "Recommends" are quite liberally used on Debian so I expect that will account for net-tools being retained in a lot of cases. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
