Show minor modes in mode-line again

Seeing active minor modes directly might be informative.  Try to reduce
the list of shown minor modes to only interesting ones using the (still
existing) diminish configuration.  Remove now obsolete configuration of
the minions package.

.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 *.elc
 
 /elpa/*
-!/elpa/diminish-[0-9]*
 !/elpa/bind-key-[0-9]*
 !/elpa/dash-[0-9]*
 !/elpa/hydra-[0-9]*

init.el

@@ -389,6 +389,9 @@
              db/define-feature-shortcuts-hydra
              hydra-feature-shortcuts/body))
 
+(use-package diminish
+  :ensure t)
+
 (use-package exec-path-from-shell
   :pin "melpa-stable"
   :commands (exec-path-from-shell-copy-envs))
@@ -1934,11 +1937,6 @@ Note that this workaround is incomplete, as explained in this comment."
               sml/name-width 30)
   :commands (sml/setup))
 
-(use-package minions
-  :ensure t
-  :commands (minions-mode)
-  :init (setq minions-mode-line-lighter "…"))
-
 (use-package moody
   :ensure t
   :commands (moody-replace-mode-line-buffer-identification
@@ -2984,14 +2982,12 @@ eventuelly be set to nil, however)."
                   minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode
                   ace-window-display-mode
                   key-chord-mode
-                  minions-mode
                   which-key-mode
                   projectile-mode
                   yas-global-mode
                   global-git-commit-mode
                   marginalia-mode
-                  vertico-mode
-                  ))
+                  vertico-mode))
     (with-demoted-errors "Cannot activate mode: %s"
       (funcall mode +1)))