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I would agree if this applied to a single command that removed a single package. However, it likely that this refers to the automatic removal of multiple.
WARPED VISION
Let's not confuse the matter further by introducing mathematics into this conversation, too.
even though you may or may not be joking around with that it is hard to tell as text has no inflection, other then that in the head of the reader. Sorry most people cannot transpose ideologies as metaphors.
it's simple math = it's elementary
Wrong interpretation. The tool removes automatically installed packages. Not automatically remove packages.
well, it is looking like someones(s) is wanting an intellectual debate.
in the case of Ubuntu not fbsd but perhaps them too as I just learned they use autoremove as well, developers developed a package system and leave out the logic. ( so now I am just taking this off the top of my head from past experiences as I have not done a study of it completely)
I install a package , the pkg system takes care of the dependencies (extra packages) needed to make it work. so I looks them up and tells you these too are needed then ask you do you want all of this stuff installed on your system to make that package work.
Okay, logic here, maybe they just want the single program package so ask. Okay
now user does not want that package anymore, remove it, no logic is applied nor put to question in some cases. do you want all of this other stuff no longer needed for that program to work remove too?
why do I need it? remove it.
Ubunitu ends up with what is called orphaned packages, why? then they tell you about it you have packages that have no use whatsoever on your system is you want them remove then type sudo autoremove .
begs the question what are they doing there in the first place, how did they get there, and why did you not remove them whenever I was removing packages.
yes sometimes multiple programs depend on the same dependencies, so yeah don't remove those ones, just everything else that was installed to get that one program to work that I told the system to remove,
when installing and removing programs the dependencies should come and go along with them, otherwise we end up with what is called the orphaned packages which need to be autoremoved.
when in fact they are not being removed automatically because the user has to issue a command to have it do so. If they'd have been automatically removed in the first place then no message ever would show up telling the user they need to be automatically removed.
does not matter
to say
"Wrong interpretation. The tool removes automatically installed packages. Not automatically remove packages."
that is a break in logic, a twist in words, the word autoremove by the english language and its usages, to automatically remove something. regardless of how it got there.
if it removes automatically installed packages, no orphaned, and the deps being removed by the usage of the program (script) called autoremove that are left behind especially in the case of FBSD.
where they automatically installed or did someone have to tell the package system to install them along with telling the package to install the main program?
for the most part you have to agree to have the system install anything you tell it to install to be installed. Where total size is the of the complete install is being used for the determination of doing so.
Now if the main package is removed you have to use 'autoremove' to remove the deps too else they are left behind thus causing them to become what is called orphaned. So that statment is illogical. becae the deps were not automatcilly instelled, you have to yas yes to that then use automove to remove them when the main pkg is removed.
if the tool is used to remove automatically installed packages then logic states there is no need for it. if they are "automatically installed" then they should be automatically removed too when no longer needed.
the term then is being used in a contradiction to itself - actually whenever it is being used it is in a contradiction to itself because it is not automatically removing anything because a outside influence has to tell it to do so.
Hence my sarcastic statement about it that started this debate on the matter.
it's simple math , (I already explained the metaphor)
