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.

  • pathos@lemmy.ml
    11·
    3 days ago

    Sorry, just to clarify, <pkg1> etc. will be the ones deleted or not deleted?

    • cravl@slrpnk.net
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Like @pathos said, that’s the list from the previous step. Because you’re autoremoving, it will only remove packages that aren’t dependencies of any other packages still installed.