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installed instead of removed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>autoremove</option> (and the <option>auto-remove</option> alias since 1.1)</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>autoremove</literal> is used to remove packages that were automatically
+ installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term><option>edit-sources</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>edit-sources</literal> lets you edit
your sources.list file and provides basic sanity checks.