If you can work out what packages are not safe to autoremove, I would start by posting them here.Who can I inform or submit a pull request to to remedy that?
There should only be a hard dependency if one package can never work without some other package also being installed, for instance where there are shared libraries. If it is just that the Desktop is configured to require certain packages, then it is up to the sysadmin not to remove them. But the pi-gen tool that RP use to build images should probably label those as manually-installed so they are never considered for auto-removal.
I do not think you will save more than a few GB by uninstalling unwanted packages, so can you not just use less cramped storage devices?
Statistics: Posted by jojopi — Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:43 pm