Function: package-autoremove

package-autoremove is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in package.el.gz.

Signature

(package-autoremove &optional NOCONFIRM)

Documentation

Remove packages that are no longer needed.

Packages that are no more needed by other packages in package-selected-packages and their dependencies will be deleted.

If optional argument NOCONFIRM is non-nil, or when invoked with a prefix argument, don't ask for confirmation to install packages.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 25.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun package-autoremove (&optional noconfirm)
  "Remove packages that are no longer needed.

Packages that are no more needed by other packages in
`package-selected-packages' and their dependencies
will be deleted.

If optional argument NOCONFIRM is non-nil, or when invoked with a prefix
argument, don't ask for confirmation to install packages."
  (interactive "P")
  ;; If `package-selected-packages' is nil, it would make no sense to
  ;; try to populate it here, because then `package-autoremove' will
  ;; do absolutely nothing.
  (when (or noconfirm
            package-selected-packages
            (yes-or-no-p
             (format-message
              "`package-selected-packages' is empty! Really remove ALL packages? ")))
    (let ((removable (package--removable-packages)))
      (if removable
          (when (or noconfirm
                    (y-or-n-p
                     (format "Packages to delete: %d (%s), proceed? "
                             (length removable)
                             (mapconcat #'package-desc-full-name
                              removable ", "))))
            (mapc #'package-delete removable))
        (message "Nothing to autoremove")))))