unused packages in python:3

[jennolsen84]

unused packages in python:3

[yosifkit]

That wouldn't actually save space, since those are installed in previous layers of the image. I think some are valid to keep because they are only autoremovable after we apt-get purge -y python.*. Which is later installed directly from upstream, but not through a deb package, so apt doesn't know about it.

Yes, that is "expected", but needs to be updated. We missed updating it when we moved from the beta 3.5 to the release (I'll go fix that).

[jennolsen84]

ah, so ideally, the following would be done so that apt-get autoremove will not accidentally delete desired libraries (since they are wanted by python).

1. Create a debian package from python source
2. Install the newly created deb file
3. cleanup

(all in one layer)

I totally understand if this is not high on the priority list right now, but would you agree that it would be the best implementation?

[tianon]

I think this was actually caused by #129, and is thus finally really fixed by #137:

$ docker run -it --rm python:3 bash
root@160e5530f522:/# apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[wglambert]

This question/request seems resolved so I'm going to close it.

If you believe this to be in error then let me know and I'll re-open it