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unattended-upgrades package

  1. Bug #1624644
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1624644

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote : Re: Unable to automatically remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software

@Jarno: IMO Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies is already a risky option and I don't recommend enabling it because it may remove packages which are not used according the to package-dependency chain but which users rely on using software that is not packaged.
The only place I would use this option are dedicated server systems where everything is packaged and which run services only without allowing user shell/GUI logins.

This bug is about removing packages which became unused as a result of running other package management tools, not u-u.

I consider this out of scope for u-u because it can be solved easily by the used other package management tool and this feature will most likely unpleasantly surprise users by removing unexpected packages.