Removing Evolution on Rawhide

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Sat Jan 21 03:42:48 UTC 2006


Willem Riede wrote:

> On 01/20/2006 07:37:08 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:26 -0500, Igor Jagec wrote:
>> > Well, it still depends on Beagle :-/ Evolution is a great application,
>> > but the problem is that it provides more features than I need.
>> > Thunderbird is just perfect for me. Ok, I'll play a bit with 
>> Evolution,
>> > maybe I figure that I really need some features like Calendar ;)
>> >
>> I think more to the point is that beagle requires evolution-sharp, and
>> evolution-sharp requires evolution.
>
>
> And that begs the question "why?". Leveraging a library is one thing, 
> but  forcing in the application against users wishes is just wrong.
>
> Willem Riede.

Can we cut the hyperbole to a minimum level?. Nobody is forcing any user 
to install a application or Fedora itself. Can we reduce the library 
dependencies or split packages into a more modular fashion is a good 
question to ask though.


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Rahul 

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