[DC LoCo] Evolution Killed My GNOME

[N.C. Weber]

Well, that's kind of a rum deal.  If I can install whatever programs I 
like, I should also have the freedom to uninstall the ones I don't like 
with as much impunity.  Ah well, c'est la vie.

- N.C. Weber
   Curator of the Afrodiseum
   http://www.afrodiseum.com


On 06/07/2011 01:32 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 7 June 2011 00:36, N.C. Weber<ncweber00 at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>> I was thinking about saving space on my system, so I've been removing apps
>> the I never use.  One application I decided to kill was Evolution.  I never
>> use it.  In fact, I hate the thing.  So, I went in to uninstall it.  Lo and
>> behold, uninstalling Evolution also kills Gnome-applets, Gnome-panel, and
>> Gnome-control-center.  Normally, this wouldn't bother me as I'm dedicated to
>> Unity (love the thing), but it means I have no clock on my top bar.  Any
>> recommendations or substitutions for restoring the clock?
> This is an easy fix. Gnome&  Unity depends on evolution-data-server so
> please re-install ubuntu-desktop (which will also re-install the stuff
> you removed). Next time, pay a little more attention to what other
> programs are being uninstalled when you mark something for
> uninstalling.
>
> I don't recommend you try to cut out programs from Ubuntu; they're
> generally there for a good reason&  the default Ubuntu install doesn't
> take up much hard drive space. You might be able to remove evolution
> (but keep evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common) but
> I've not tried this as I have no reason to.
>
> Jeremy Bicha
>