Diodon no longer required message?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 09/12/2020 21:26, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
> 

The whole point is I haven't installed diodon, I've checked back through 
the terminator command history to make sure that is the case.  I believe 
that ubuntu has put it on my system as a replacement for clipit but now 
it's telling me that it's no longer needed.


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Mark Lawrence