Comment 5 for bug 1797557

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TJ (tj) wrote :

Removing the package causes a lot of churn even on a minimal cross-build install:

$ sudo apt remove libc6-armhf-cross
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf cpp-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf cpp-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabihf-base
  gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf-base gcc-7-cross-base gcc-8-cross-base linux-libc-dev-armhf-cross
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
  g++-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf libasan4-armhf-cross
  libatomic1-armhf-cross libc6-armhf-cross libc6-dev-armhf-cross libcilkrts5-armhf-cross libgcc-4.7-dev-armhf-cross
  libgcc-7-dev-armhf-cross libgcc1-armhf-cross libgomp1-armhf-cross libstdc++-7-dev-armhf-cross libstdc++6-4.7-dev-armhf-cross
  libstdc++6-armhf-cross libubsan0-armhf-cross
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 17 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 79.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

With 93 packages listed directly as reverse-depends it has the potential to make quite a mess.