how to make an auto Smiley Pack

[Arantor]

Good luck arguing for removing something as trivial as that option (no, you don't need it)

How does 'disabled' status solve the uses of multiple sets?

[Gwenwyfar]

"Some" of them. Maybe seasonal smilies or others you switch between and don't want to delete. Plus it's a nice feature without requesting you to delete a smiley, if you want to leave it around for whatever reason.

[wintstar]

In my opinion it would be enough to remove the function "Smiley Pack". Upload smileys individually and save them in the database and do not bind them to any packages. And use a language file for the tooltip text. Then it is multi-lingual.

[wintstar]

i saw someone using "Thumbs.db" i don't know if that is what makes it upload it automatically or what it does.

You mean a Pak file. In phpBB smileys are installed using this file.
https://file.org/extension/pak