Ubuntu
unattended-upgrades package

  1. Bug #1624644
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 1624644

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: By default settings unattended-upgrade is unable to automatically remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software.

@Balint re "@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."

Could you give me an example of how people would install dependencies for software that is not package that would also set the "is_auto_removable" flag in the apt cache to True? I can't think of a situation like this.