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Author Topic:  Cauton -- be careful with autoremove  (Read 1638 times)

Offline dibl

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Cauton -- be careful with autoremove
« on: 2019/12/20, 19:58:20 »
On a d-u today, I saw this:

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Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libdrm-dev libgles1 libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libopengl0 libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev
  libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev
  libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxdamage-dev libxfixes-dev libxshmfence-dev libxxf86vm-dev
  mesa-common-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.

I have not had time to check, but I don't believe such packages as libopengl0 can really be removed.  Will need to see whether these removals are safe to do.[/code]
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Offline sedonix

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Re: Cauton -- be careful with autoremove
« Reply #1 on: 2019/12/21, 16:30:24 »
Got rid of all of them days ago. Just dev junk.

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Re: Cauton -- be careful with autoremove
« Reply #2 on: 2019/12/21, 23:51:19 »
Just ran d-u and then autoremove, and all looks good.

Thanks  @sedonix.
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Offline DeepDayze

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Re: Cauton -- be careful with autoremove
« Reply #3 on: 2019/12/22, 22:12:40 »
Yes still a wise idea to check what apt will remove when doing autoremove. If there's something you want to keep don't remove it.