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.

  • MangoPenguinEnglish
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    2 天前

    apt autoremove will do it. Just double check what it’s removing for obvious problems.

      • MangoPenguinEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        Well whatever the equivalent is lol, I didn’t see the last little line on the post.

          • MangoPenguinEnglish
            3·
            2 天前

            That seems like a rather critical feature to have missing!

            • superkret@feddit.org
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              1 天前

              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.