On 2022-06-14 03:09, Robert Webb wrote:
Agreed. As A.B. pointed out, the definition of "unneeded" is crucial. Assuming that user-installed (vs. automatically-installed) packages and their dependencies are excluded, some automatically-installed packages may have become directly useful, and desired to be kept, even though they are not needed anymore to support user-installed packages. If the user is presented with a list of packages to confirm for removal, will it be obvious just from the name, whether a package is now being used directly? If the user makes such a choice, can the status of the package then be changed from automatic to user-installed so that it will be protected in the future?
In the now long away past, YaST knew about manually installed packages and they would not be removed automatically. But, AFAIR, the feature gave problems and was removed. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)