-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cornelius Mostert wrote: > > Hi > > > > I just tried on 8.10 to remove evolution but synaptic told me it would > > also remove gnome and gnome desktop environment, why would this > happen, > > when i have lots of other stuff that also uses gnome. I said no, but > > is this a bug in the dependencies. > > > > Paul > > > > > Any reason why you want to remove it?
I use firefox and thunderbird, i know evolution does not take up much space, but by removing it I can save a few hundred kilobytes, then why not, removing un used packages keeps systems un cluttered. what do you mean by meta package anyway ? Paul > > I'm sure I have removed Evolution before but I believe it removes > ubuntu-desktop too (which is the meta package for the desktop) although > I can't remember exactly how I did it and I haven't got a machine I can > try it on at the moment. AFAIK it isn't a bug. > > Rob > > ______________________________ > > It is a VERY strong annoyance!!!! > I have also tried to remove stuff (INCLUDING evolution) in the past and > I learned to check what it says it will remove as well. You could easily > brake the whole system!! > > I wanted to rem Evo due to it getting its nickers in a twist with our MS > Exchange server, Then another time The filter options got messed up and > I did not get my new messages EVEN THOUGH the filter box were clean, and > AFTER A LOT of messing about I found what files to delete to make it > work. I am actually now in the same position again, I do not get my new > mail as i did do a filter in the past BUT did also clear the filter... > > IT IS VERY unfortunate that it is only Evolution (it seems) that > interface with MS Exchange... > > OK I know I can ask my IT dep to enable POP and IMAP but they (as did > some OTHER IT guys in this forum) told me in NO uncertain terms that > that was NOT an option. > > Sorry for the use of CAPS but I am very anoyed (eventhough this might > not be a bug) that if you try to uninstall 1 app it trys to uninstall > GNOME!!! or other criticall components... > > thanx > _______________________________ > - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpd6swACgkQaggq1k2FJq0zGwCgjsgxoMACBs8N+AQ7TuXtnEd0 0roAnj9QxcFXlEsbOaFEOQlILZAEvWAJ =Er27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
