libevolution-cil dependencies for Edgy.

George Farris farrisg at shaw.ca
Tue Sep 12 03:33:07 BST 2006


Is it possible that the libevolution-cil package can exclude Evolution?
I have this email from the Debian packager of my Gfax fax client.

> From: Mirco Bauer <meebey at meebey.net>
> To: George Farris <farrisg at mala.bc.ca>
> Subject: Re: Hi Mirco and Gfax info
> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:21:44 +0200
>
> There are some things in gfax we should talk about.
> One is the evolution-sharp dependency, is it possible to make that
> somehow plugin-like? the evolution-sharp library pulls a complete
> evolution install in, many gfax users complained about that (when they
> upgraded from the very old gfax to the Gtk# one). I mean they can't >
> use gfax without having evolution installed now...

I think he has a point.  There are a few packages now that use EDS and
may not want all 35MB of Evolution.  Dates comes to mind as well as
Contact.

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George Farris
farrisg at shaw.ca





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