Debian :: Apt-get Autoremove, Blind Trust, And Semi-essential Packages?

Sep 7, 2011

I've been using Debian for around ~3 months now, though before that a certain derivative thereof since the start of the year.Long story short is that I was installing packages, as you do, when apt-get prompted that I run apt-get autoremove, as it does. So, trusting the computer, I do, not bothering to read the chunk of packages that it recommends to remove. Life goes on, until a reboot reveals that there are issues.Short story shorter, a quick cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep remove spits out the following:

root@kubrick:~# cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep remove
2011-09-05 22:04:09 startup packages remove
2011-09-05 22:04:09 remove gnome-user-share 2.30.1-1 2.30.1-1

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

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bluez-gnome libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libepc-ui-1.0-1 python-gst0.10 libmtp7 gcalctool libpth20 gnome-nettool libepc-1.0-1 libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 libgksu1.2-0
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gnome-volume-manager gtk2-engines libgtksourceview2.0-common libkpathsea4 eog libgtksourceview2.0-0 libavahi-gobject0 gnome-backgrounds python-eggtrayicon python-sexy
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gnome-backgrounds gnome-cards-data gnome-core gnome-nettool gnome-network-admin gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-spell gnome-system-tools gnome-themes
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libavahi-gobject0 libavahi-ui0 libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libgadu3 libgalago3 libgda3-3 libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common libggz2 libggzcore9 libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0
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libpth20 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libspectre1 libspeexdsp1 libsvga1 libzephyr3 mysql-common p7zip pkg-config python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gdata
python-gdbm python-gnome2-extras python-gst0.10 python-gtkhtml2 python-gtkmozembed python-gtksourceview2 python-notify python-sexy python-xdg rhythmbox seahorse svgalibg1
swfdec-gnome system-config-printer totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla totem-plugins unzip vinagre vino w3c-dtd-xhtml zip
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 107 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 216MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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