Sorry, this was meant for emacs.stackexchange.....

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:49 PM Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Each time I call up list-package and update, I get this message after the
> updates
>
> Operation finished.  Packages that are no longer needed: 43.  Type ‘M-x
> package-autoremove’ to remove them
>
> Below is my init.el concerning use-package
>
> (require 'package)
> (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
>
> (setq package-archives '(("ELPA"  . "http://tromey.com/elpa/")
> ("gnu"   . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
> ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
> ("org"   . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/")))
>
> (package-initialize)
>
> ;;; Bootstrapping use-package, i.e., if use-package isn't installed
> ;;; then install it
> (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
>   (package-refresh-contents)
>   (package-install 'use-package))
>
> ;;;This will ensure all packages are installed if not already
> (require 'use-package-ensure)
> (setq use-package-always-ensure t)
>
> ;;;This will make sure packages are updated
> (use-package auto-package-update
>   :config
>   (setq auto-package-update-delete-old-versions t)
>   (setq auto-package-update-interval 1)
>   (setq auto-package-update-hide-results t)
>   (auto-package-update-maybe))
>
>
> I obviously don't want to uninstall all the packages on my system. What
> have I done wrong? Can you critique my setup here?
>
> LB
>