Well...a debate over if this is a real bug or not is not one I will go into, however, I would like to say one thing about this.
Having tried Linux Mint, I can tell you for certain that there is NOTHING about the GNOME desktop that actually requires ANY part of evolution, INCLUDING evolution-data-server. The e-d-s package is listed in Synaptic (when you try to remove it) as being depended on by practically everything short of the kernel, and yet Mint (7 and 8) ship without it, so this is clearly just a dependency for the sake of dependencies. I know the common argument any time someone mentions getting rid of evolution is "it's just a few MB of space, so ignore it." The problem is, I have an ASUS EEE 901 which only has 20GB of space, and I recently "upgraded" my main laptop from a 320GB HDD to a 64GB SDD. Even 100MB comes at a premium right now, ESPECIALLY for something I have absolutely zero intention of ever launching again. So, while this may or may not be a bug, I think it's fair to say that for Ubuntu/Synaptic/APT to list something like gnome-panel as depending on evolution-data-server is a major design flaw. Somehow, I had GNOME, Firefox, Totem, and Pidgin all running flawlessly in Mint, without any trace of evolution-data-server, but this cannot be done in Ubuntu. Personally, I would still be using Mint if not for the Firefox search addon they have that's a pain to remove. I like having MP3/MP4 playback working out of the box, and I really, really hate Evolution ever since it crashed (and would not reload) 7 minutes before I had to file a court document (I'm a paralegal.) I will never use it again, even if they do fix the 9-year-old bug that makes it randomly corrupt its own message index. If others want to set themselves up for that kind of catastrophe, fine, but don't force me to keep e-d-s installed when CLEARLY it's not a true dependency of ANYTHING. In the mean time, I think I'm going to say to hell with it all and manually edit that file which dpkg (/var/something, I forget now...) uses to track dependencies so I can remove it and not ditch all of GNOME with it. I'd bet almost anything that Ubuntu runs as well without e-d-s as Mint does. -- Cannot uninstall Evolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294438 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
