[mythtv-users] removal

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 17:18:36 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that mythtv is a metapackage that pulls in the
>> real MythTV packages as dependencies.
>
> IIRC, apt-get auto-remove will remove packages which were automatically installed to meet dependencies but which are no longer needed. It won't remove packages that were installed other than automatically to meet dependencies.
>
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Thanks Stephen and Simon, a combination of your suggestions, slightly
modified, has me running a little lighter and no further attempts to
update Myth.   Daryl


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