How do I uninstall Evolution?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:23 -0700, michael wilson wrote:
> evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common remove
> ubuntu-desktop and gnome-panel when you use the complete uninstall.  I
> do not know enough to know everything, but the names of these packages
> indicate something about the d panels not showing up after a reboot.

I dunno, maybe my earlier email did not get through to you. For your
convenience:

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:38 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: 
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 22:14 -0700, michael wilson wrote:
> > If you go to the package installer and search on evolution you get a
> > list of many things.
> 
> 27 in my case (searching for package names), 8 of which are installed
> 
> > If you "completely uninstall" everything that is evolution* ubuntu
> > will not boot correctly after you log in.  
> 
> Yes, because contrary to what people claim, it is not "bloated" (many
> features != bloated). It is split into various parts, some of which are
> used by other applications. For example, the panel's calendar applet
> reuses the evolution calendar.
> 
> >   So evolution cannot be completely uninstalled from the package
> > installer.
> 
> It can, one just needs to know what one is doing 
> 
> > The package installer claims to remove 106MB
> 
> I don't know _what you are uninstalling, but you should only be
> uninstalling these, which will, according to my PC, free 116 MB
> 
> evolution, evolution-exchange evolution-common, evolution-plugins,
> evolution-webcal, openoffice.org-evolution
> 
> You should leave evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common
> installed, as they are used by other parts of the desktop.
> 
> As others have suggested, given modern hard disk sizes it is
> questionable whether removing it is even worth it, just hide the icon in
> the menu. But as you have seen, it is possible.
> 
> > I guess ubuntu is not that stable after all.  I am up to my 5th clean
> > install tonight trying to get rid of evolution.  Configuring ubuntu is
> > not a quick process so we are up to about 4 hours trying to figure
> > this out.
> 
> You can hardly blame Ubuntu for stability when it is you who breaks his
> box.
> 
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