OT: Thunderbird on the installer CD [was: Re: Evolution]

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Tue Jul 29 19:39:23 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:07 -0600, Leif Gregory wrote:
> If so, then maybe you want to attack the issue from another angle such
> as dependencies in Gnome to portions of Evolution libraries.

To give some data on the extent of dependencies on "evolution" as such. 

"apt-cache rdepends foo" prints a list of packages that foo is *depended
on*. This, however, includes not only hard dependencies, but also softer
relationships, like "recommends". Note, for example, that the list below
includes ubuntu-desktop, but the dependencies of this package show that
it only *recommends* evolution.

I absolutely do not see any undue dependency on evolution. Most of these
packages are intended to work with evolution, so pose no problem if they
*depend* on it (or rather *recommend* or *suggest* it, as is often
actually the case). Others recommend _either_ evolution or thunderbird

apt-cache rdepends evolution
evolution
Reverse Depends:
  libpisync0
  ubuntu-desktop 
  tomboy
  openoffice.org-evolution
  nautilus-sendto
  nautilus-sendto
  libpisync1
  libpisock9
  libgtkhtml-editor-common
  evolution-plugins
  evolution-exchange
  evolution-exchange
  evolution-exchange
  evolution-dev
  evolution-dbg
  evolution-data-server
  evolution-common
  evolution-common
  contact-lookup-applet
  screenlets
 |phpicalendar
  mail-notification-evolution
  gnome-osd
  gnome-do-plugins
  gnome-desktop-environment
  evolution-plugins-experimental
  evolution-jescs
  evolution-jescs
  evolution-jescs

Of course, some gnome applications depend on evolution-data-server and
the like, but the reason to put these evolution modules into separate
programs and packages was _exactly_ to remove Gnome dependencies on
evolution itself, and allow high interaction between the desktop
components (e.g., the calendar applet on the panel can show calendar
entries from evolution) while still providing choice in selecting an
MUA.





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