is evolution really dependent on spamassassin?

[John Summerfied]

Tim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't use spamassassin, I find it more of a hindrance than a help, so
> I wanted to remove it.
> 
> yum remove spamassassin
> ...[snip]...
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Removing:
>  spamassassin            i386       3.0.4-2.fc4      installed         1.8 M
> Removing for dependencies:
>  evolution               i386       2.2.3-2.fc4      installed          24 M
> 
> And trying "rpm -e spamassassin" produces the same sort of response.
> 
> Surely this is a stupid dependency?  It's supposedly *optional* whether
> you use anti-spam filtering in Evolution (I've never allowed it's junk
> mail checking), why should it *have* to be present?
> 

So you _can_ use the filtering.



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