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.

  • Taasz/WoofEnglish
    -1•11 months ago

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

      • Taasz/WoofEnglish
        0•11 months ago

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

          • Taasz/WoofEnglish
            3•11 months ago

            That seems like a rather critical feature to have missing!

            • @superkret@feddit.org
              2•11 months ago

              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.