I noticed while updating my system just how many packages I have installed that I don’t recognize.
I tend to think that minimalism is better for security, so I’d like to remove any packages that I’m not using, but this is a bit of a scary task.
Does anybody have a safe method for reviewing and purging unused or bloat packages while obviously making sure not to accidentally remove important dependencies?
I’m on arch btw.
apt autoremovewill do it. Just double check what it’s removing for obvious problems.apt autoremovedoes nothing on Arch.Well whatever the equivalent is lol, I didn’t see the last little line on the post.
That’s just the thing, though. There is no equivalent on Arch.
That seems like a rather critical feature to have missing!
You can use options in the package manager to show orphaned packages and then decide if you want to remove them.
Removing packages automatically could be argued to be a bad idea in general.