package-autoremove tells to delete "tempel-collection tempel cape"

[goofansu]

I'm using the Emacs built-in use-package and package to manage my packages.

When running the package-autoremove command, it tells to delete these packages. From describe-package, these packages are all installed as dependency, but only tempel has the "Required By" line. I don't know why tempel-collection and cape are recognized as dependency because they are not Required By any other packages, package-autoremove should not remove them.

The package information:

• tempel-collection

Package tempel-collection is dependency.

     Status: Installed in ‘tempel-collection-20231021.2032/’ (unsigned).
    Version: 20231021.2032
     Commit: 4a1d717eb30a78680c8f4df2d71e395c846c5371
    Summary: Collection of templates for Tempel
   Requires: tempel-0.5, emacs-29.1
    Website: https://github.com/Crandel/tempel-collection
   Keywords: tools 
 Maintainer: Vitalii Drevenchuk <[email protected]>
    Authors: Vitalii Drevenchuk <[email protected]>
             Max Penet <[email protected]>
             Daniel Mendler <[email protected]>
Other versions: 20231021.2032 (melpa).

• tempel

Package tempel is dependency.

     Status: Installed in ‘tempel-1.0/’.
    Version: 1.0
     Commit: 38dad1f85104c7c734ad9245f3a85b49562332d0
    Summary: Tempo templates/snippets with in-buffer field editing
   Requires: emacs-27.1, compat-29.1.4.0
Required by: tempel-collection-20231021.2032
    Website: https://github.com/minad/tempel
   Keywords: abbrev languages tools wp 
 Maintainer: Daniel Mendler <[email protected]>
     Author: Daniel Mendler <[email protected]>
Other versions: 1.0 (gnu).

• cape

Package cape is dependency.

     Status: Installed in ‘cape-1.1/’.
    Version: 1.1
     Commit: 1a52302e1bb051f1f0fc8a9e49780bf9af797e15
    Summary: Completion At Point Extensions
   Requires: emacs-27.1, compat-29.1.4.4
    Website: https://github.com/minad/cape
   Keywords: abbrev convenience matching completion wp 
 Maintainer: Daniel Mendler <[email protected]>
     Author: Daniel Mendler <[email protected]>
Other versions: 1.1 (gnu).

My configuration is:

(use-package cape
  :init
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'cape-dabbrev)
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'cape-file)
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'cape-elisp-block)
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'cape-history)
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'cape-keyword)
  :config
  (message "cape is loaded")
  :bind ( :prefix-map cape-prefix-map
          :prefix "C-c p"
          ("p" . completion-at-point)
          ("t" . complete-tag)
          ("d" . cape-dabbrev)
          ("h" . cape-history)
          ("f" . cape-file)
          ("k" . cape-keyword)
          ("s" . cape-elisp-symbol)
          ("e" . cape-elisp-block)
          ("a" . cape-abbrev)
          ("l" . cape-line)
          ("w" . cape-dict)
          (":" . cape-emoji)
          ("\\" . cape-tex)
          ("_" . cape-tex)
          ("^" . cape-tex)
          ("&" . cape-sgml)
          ("r" . cape-rfc1345)))

(use-package tempel
  :config
  (message "tempel is loaded")

  (defun tempel-setup-capf ()
    (setq-local completion-at-point-functions
                (cons #'tempel-expand
                      completion-at-point-functions)))

  :custom
  (tempel-trigger-prefix "<")
  :hook
  ((conf-mode prog-mode text-mode) . tempel-setup-capf))

(use-package tempel-collection
  :pin melpa
  :after tempel
  :config
  (message "tempel-collection is loaded"))

[minad]

Hi, I've also seen package-autoremove returning false positives. I suggest to avoid it, or to simply reinstall the packages which are missing after an auto remove. If you can narrow down the problem, you may want to report it upstream via M-x report-emacs-bug. Anyway, I recommend to keep an eye on all your installed packages and to manually remove cruft from time to time.

[goofansu]

Ok, thank you, it's not a problem though as packages are always installed automatically.

[goofansu]

FYI, I removed package-selected-packages in the custom.el, then cape and tempel-collection are recoganized as installed, and tempel is the dependency of tempel-collection, all are good now.