you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 8 months ago

I can't really imagine a benefit to --autoremove except for keeping old packages a bit longer before removing them.

Eg, if you run apt --update --autoremove upgrade -y once a day you'll keep your prior-to-currently-running-version kernel packages a day longer than if you ran autoremove immediately after each upgrade.

To make things more confusing: the new-ish apt full-upgrade command seems to remove most of what apt autoremove wants to... but not quite everything. 🀷

  • source
  • parent