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I was deleting all previous Eclipse versions as per an answer I read, so I used sudo apt-get autoremove eclipse*. It said it would be about 40 Mb of files to uninstall, so I agreed believing it would work on the intended scope.

The expected behavior is that it removes the application itself and also its dependencies. In my case, it's begun to delete some linux-headers, python packages, etc. which I don't think are related to Eclipse, and it's got me worried. Help?

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Not dangerous at all. From man apt-get:

autoremove (and the auto-remove alias since 1.1)
    autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically
    installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no
    longer needed.
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  • From that description, I guess nothing important was removed even though so many linux-headers and important-sounding stuff flied across the screen. Thanks, I'll look into the behavior of the package* argument. – JoseHdez_2 Aug 01 '16 at 16:33
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    Exactly. The linux-headers and other packages are probably from old kernels, no longer in use. And the package* argument is pattern matching which means "anything that starts with 'package'". – wjandrea Aug 01 '16 at 16:35