<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, 07:35 Colin Law, <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, 22:11 Mark Lawrence, <<a href="mailto:breamoreboy@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">breamoreboy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 09/12/2020 21:26, Colin Law wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 20:35, Mark Lawrence <<a href="mailto:breamoreboy@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">breamoreboy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Good morning/afternoon/evening,<br>
>><br>
>> I understood that in 20.10 diodon is part of the officially supported<br>
>> packages and that clipit had been deprecated if not removed completely.<br>
>> So for the last few weeks instead of clipit I've been very happily using<br>
>> diodon which I actually prefer.<br>
>><br>
>> Having a tidy up of my system I noticed clipit so thought I don't need<br>
>> it, I'll remove it. Hence:-<br>
>><br>
>> sudo apt-get remove clipit<br>
>> Reading package lists... Done<br>
>> Building dependency tree<br>
>> Reading state information... Done<br>
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer<br>
>> required:<br>
>> diodon libayatana-appindicator3-1 libayatana-ido3-0.4-0<br>
>> libayatana-indicator3-7 libdiodon0 libxapian30 libxdo3<br>
>> libzeitgeist-2.0-0 xdotool<br>
>> zeitgeist-core<br>
>> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them...<br>
>><br>
>> Now with the above I'm a tad concerned that in the future I might<br>
>> inadvertently use the autoremove option and not engage my MK I eyeballs<br>
>> properly and remove diodon. What is the status of diodon given my<br>
>> remarks in the first paragraph above? What should I be doing about this<br>
>> situation?<br>
> <br>
> If you manually install diodon so the system knows you want it then it<br>
> will not autoremove it. When you tell it to install I think you will<br>
> get a message saying marked as manually installed, or something<br>
> similar.<br>
> <br>
> Colin<br>
> <br>
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The whole point is I haven't installed diodon, I've checked back through <br>
the terminator command history to make sure that is the case. I believe <br>
that ubuntu has put it on my system as a replacement for clipit but now <br>
it's telling me that it's no longer needed.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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</div><div dir="auto">sudo apt install diodon</div><div dir="auto">And then the system will know not to autoremove it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Colin</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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-- <br>
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask<br>
what you can do for our language.<br>
<br>
Mark Lawrence<br>
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