> But, apt-get uses gpg too, to check package signatures. It still has its > own copy of gpg, so it still works. You can't remove it easily. > > It's the same situation, and it's not a bug. what are you talking about? im talking about packages which are not essential like mesa , nouveau , wpa-supplicant... Nevertheless about gpg in debian see: user@host:~$ sudo apt remove gpg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: dirmngr gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg-agent gpgconf gpgsm libassuan0 libksba8 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common libnpth0 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db pinentry-curses Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: gnupg gpg gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 3,490 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] user@host:~$ sudo apt remove gpg* Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'gpg-wks-client' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpg-wks-server' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpg' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgrt-tools' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgv-static' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgv' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgv-win32' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpg-agent' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpg-remailer' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgconf' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgsm' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgv1' for glob 'gpg*' Note, selecting 'gpgv2' for glob 'gpg*' Package 'gpgv1' is not installed, so not removed Package 'gpgv-static' is not installed, so not removed Package 'gpgv-win32' is not installed, so not removed Package 'gpgv2' is not installed, so not removed Package 'gpg-remailer' is not installed, so not removed Package 'gpgrt-tools' is not installed, so not removed The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: conntrack dconf-cli ethtool gir1.2-glib-2.0 gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 initscripts insserv keyboard-configuration libassuan0 libde265-0 libegl1-mesa libfftw3-double3 libfontenc1 libgirepository-1.0-1 libheif1 libksba8 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common liblqr-1-0 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libnpth0 libpython-stdlib libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libqubes-rpc-filecopy2 libqubesdb libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db libxfont2 libxkbfile1 net-tools pinentry-curses python python-minimal python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-cffi-backend python3-daemon python3-dbus python3-gi python3-lockfile python3-qubesdb python3-six python3-xcffib python3-xdg qubesdb qubesdb-vm socat startpar sysv-rc tinyproxy tinyproxy-bin tor tor-geoipdb torsocks x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xdg-utils xen-utils-common xenstore-utils xinit xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-qubes xserver-xorg-video-dummyqbs Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: apt apt-transport-https apt-transport-tor apt-utils dirmngr gnupg gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv qubes-core-agent qubes-core-agent-networking qubes-gui-agent qubes-vm-dependencies tasksel tasksel-data WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! apt gpgv (due to apt) 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 19 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 15.5 MB disk space will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] Please reopen. Leo Famulari: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 02:11:09AM +0000, bo0od wrote: >> My friend isnt this what im saying not friendly,bad usability,disaster...etc >> >> And i said to have maybe something like synapse which mean addressing >> everything installed and user can just remove the packages by clicking on >> them (or lets call it the GUI way of doing it) similar to the functionally >> you showed: > > The programs you are asking to remove are used internally by Guix. > > You can't remove them with a simple command. You can't do that on other > Linux distros either. > > For example, on Debian, I have /usr/bin/gpg: > > ------ > $ ls -l /usr/bin/gpg > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1046256 Aug 22 2019 /usr/bin/gpg > ------ > > Then I uninstall it: > > ------ > $ sudo apt-get remove gpg > [...] > $ ls -l /usr/bin/gpg > ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/gpg': No such file or directory > ----- > > But, apt-get uses gpg too, to check package signatures. It still has its > own copy of gpg, so it still works. You can't remove it easily. > > It's the same situation, and it's not a bug. >