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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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