I just upgraded my ubuntu box from 12.04 LST to 14.04 LTS. Now apt-get tells me:

The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: runit Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.

Is it really safe to remove this package? dpkg-query -L runit shows me a list of iles that look pretty important to me...

Thanks for the advice, Massimo

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runit is an alternative process supervisor (a la Upstart, Systemd, supervisord, watchdog, etc, etc, etc). It's not a default-install package.

I suspect you had it installed because you have recently removed something that depends on it. The current 12.04 list is below:

$ apt-cache rdepends runit
runit
Reverse Depends: dropbear dropbear vblade-persist twoftpd-run twoftpd |tinydyndns socklog-run socklog roundup |qmail-run mailfront ipsvd git-daemon-run dropbear dnscache-run djbdns dbndns daemontools-run daemontools cereal bcron-run bcron

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