Diodon no longer required message?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:35, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good morning/afternoon/evening,
>
> I understood that in 20.10 diodon is part of the officially supported
> packages and that clipit had been deprecated if not removed completely.
> So for the last few weeks instead of clipit I've been very happily using
> diodon which I actually prefer.
>
> Having a tidy up of my system I noticed clipit so thought I don't need
> it, I'll remove it.  Hence:-
>
> sudo apt-get remove clipit
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
>    diodon libayatana-appindicator3-1 libayatana-ido3-0.4-0
> libayatana-indicator3-7 libdiodon0 libxapian30 libxdo3
> libzeitgeist-2.0-0 xdotool
>    zeitgeist-core
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them...
>
> Now with the above I'm a tad concerned that in the future I might
> inadvertently use the autoremove option and not engage my MK I eyeballs
> properly and remove diodon.  What is the status of diodon given my
> remarks in the first paragraph above?  What should I be doing about this
> situation?

If you manually install diodon so the system knows you want it then it
will not autoremove it.  When you tell it to install I think you will
get a message saying marked as manually installed, or something
similar.

Colin