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
1 Answer
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
