Seuraavat paketit POISTETAAN:
libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libmecab2 linux-headers-5.4.0-52
linux-headers-5.4.0-52-generic linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic
linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-52-generic
mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-utils

Why does autoremove want to remove these packages? I'm pretty sure I shouldn't accept.

I have Ubuntu 20.04.

EDIT: uname -r produces: 5.4.0-54-generic

Wait a minute, I just got a kernel update. I'm stupid.

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Imagine you want to install package A, apt is going to install package B and C because package A won't work without them, but since you never asked for package B and C and no other package needs them, if you remove package A apt will realize you don't need package B and C anymore.

There are other scenarios as well; for example, if you update a package, it may not depend on some packages it was before.

If apt recognize any of these packages which you don't need, it will tell you that you can remove them with apt autoremove.

Is it safe? Not entirely, you may have installed other packages without apt, and they may need these packages to work, and apt won't recognize them; this is why apt don't remove them by default and asking you to remove them, if you know you don't need them anywhere else.

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