On 2023-06-23 14:14, Dan Ritter wrote:
It seems unlikely to me that you want to do an autoremove before you have done an upgrade.
I'd not say unwise. Useless, pointless, perhaps; but it doesn't hurt anything.
autoremove removes packages that were installed as dependencies of other packages that were "orphaned" (meaning any package(s) that installed those dependent packages are no longer installed). Running it two or more times in a row, or running it when you haven't uninstalled packages since the last time you ran autoremove, is pointless, but will have absolutely no effect.
In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically.
Seconded.