gnome-do dependencies (wrongly?) include Evolution

Jonathan Davies jpds at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 5 22:11:11 GMT 2009


2009/3/5 Nacho de los Ríos Tormo <nachodelosrios at gmail.com>:
> I send this email to this list because gnome-do is not in Launchpad, and
> this is the address it had for the maintainer. I hope it won't be filtered
> out by the list filter.

GNOME Do is indeed in Launchpad, it's main page and Ubuntu package
page are located here:

- https://launchpad.net/do
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-do

> gnome-do in Jaunty tries to install the whole Evolution. Althoug Evo is
> present in most Ubuntu installs, this dependency should not be necessary.
> Some people use alternative mail readers, and the complete Evo install may
> be very inconvenient for compact Ubuntu installations such as in netbooks.
> The dependency should be optional.

gnome-do has a Evolution plugin, that may be the reason it's pulled in.

Jonathan



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