How to unflag packages so that apt-get autoremove doesn't remove them?

Question

Debian

Without thinking, I demolished something from the working environment of the gnome, and managed to demolish it so that he didn’t wipe the entire DE (usually it turned out the other way around))), but now apt constantly tells me that the packages of the working environment (and there is a large list, with gnome programs) is generally not needed and, they say, run autoremove and I'll demolish everything. And I don’t really need this in general) how to fix it?

Answer 1

In order to get apt back to normal and the DE back to normal, I recommend installing the necessary meta package for your DE. To avoid installing unnecessary dependencies, add to /etc/apt/apt.conf

// Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";

Thus, you will be able to install any packages with only the essential dependencies for the package itself to work.