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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