Diodon no longer required message?

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, 07:35 Colin Law, <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, 22:11 Mark Lawrence, <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 09/12/2020 21:26, Colin Law wrote:
>> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:35, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> >> Good morning/afternoon/evening,
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>> >> 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
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>> 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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> Not quite, something else that was installed (possibly clipit) pulled in
> diodon, whatever it was has been removed so now the system thinks that
> diodon is no longer needed. If you want to keep it installed then run
> sudo apt install diodon
> And then the system will know not to autoremove it.
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> Colin
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>> --
>> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
>> what you can do for our language.
>>
>> Mark Lawrence
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