JetPack 4.5.1: Is an "apt autoremove" safe?

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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After installing JetPack 4.5.1. I notice that apt reports a lot of packages as automatically installed dependencies that can be removed.

I don’t see anything JetPack specific in the package list, so, is it safe to remove them via “apt autoremove”?

root@jetson:~# apt install gcc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gcc is already the newest version (4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.3).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apt-clone archdetect-deb bogl-bterm busybox-static cryptsetup-bin dpkg-repack gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0
  grub-common kde-window-manager kinit kio kpackagetool5 kwayland-data kwin-common kwin-x11 libdebian-installer4
  libkdecorations2-5v5 libkdecorations2private5v5 libkf5activities5 libkf5attica5 libkf5completion-data
  libkf5completion5 libkf5declarative-data libkf5declarative5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-data
  libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5idletime5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5
  libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5newstuff-data
  libkf5newstuff5 libkf5newstuffcore5 libkf5package-data libkf5package5 libkf5plasma5 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5solid5
  libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5
  libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5waylandserver5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkscreenlocker5
  libkwin4-effect-builtins1 libkwineffects11 libkwinglutils11 libkwinxrenderutils11 libqt5designer5 libqt5help5
  libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5sql5 libqt5test5 libxcb-composite0 libxcb-cursor0 libxcb-damage0 os-prober
  python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5 python3-icu python3-pam python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit
  python3-sip qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons rdate tasksel tasksel-data
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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hello xor,

please check Jetson Linux Driver Package Toolchain for the cross-compiling toolchain,
autoremove should be also a safety commands to remove independency libraries.
thanks

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Thanks Jerry!

Btw., I was running apt install gcc just to produce the output shown, I did not want to install gcc, but thanks for the additional hint anyway! :-)