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by shared4you 4028 days ago
What does this do that `apt-get autoremove` doesn't?
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apt-get autoremove only removes now unused packages that were previously installed automatically as a dependency.

debfoster explicitly asks you which packages you want to keep and removes everything else. You can use it to strip down an existing Debian installation to just the base packages.

I remember this having existed before autoremove. It shouldn't help much now.