Ubuntu
unattended-upgrades package

  1. Bug #1624644
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 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 I added update-manager based on my experience with (less experienced) users, who kept their system up-to-date by saying yes to everything regarding updates which popped up on their system.

They never touched apt or synaptic nor installed packages by themselves by other means.

I think removing newly unused packages would be a reasonable default for u-u and update-manager.

I agree that Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies=true is riskier than having it disabled but it still removes a subset of what Remove-Unused-Dependencies=true would thus Remove-Unused-Dependencies=true would be more risky.

Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies=true is needed to clean up old kernel packages filling up /boot (and the whole disk).
If update-manager defaults to that by default, too, the system won't break itself.