Whether to remove orphans/foreign packages before or after updating?

[owburp]

Here’s an example of why @Scotty65 prefers doing the foreign packages after the update. In just the previous update [Stable 2026-03-23], a package had been removed from the repos and replaced. Looking over my log notes from that update, I had fortunately read Scotty65’s post warning about it and delayed removing foreign packages until after the update. I’m starting to see the light …

@scotty65

I guess we’ve found the “bug” with removing foreign packages before doing an update. A package may become foreign if it is removed from the repos and replaced by another package (in this case, kdsoap-qt6 was removed from the repos & replaced by kdsoap)