[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware
Stephen Mirowski
spmirowski at shaw.ca
Mon Apr 10 07:23:15 UTC 2006
Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 22:55 -0700, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
>
>> I don't use Evolution; however, if I uninstall it, deps would remove
>> Gnome
>>
>
> Not on this machine (FC4). Attempting to "yum remove evolution" gives:
>
> Removing:
> evolution i386 2.2.3-3.fc4 installed 24 M
> Removing for dependencies:
> evolution-connector i386 2.2.3-1.fc4 installed 6.5 M
>
>
> You probably tried to remove evolution-data-server as well. Its
> functionality is used beyond the evolution mail client:
>
> Description :
> The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for
> programs that work with contacts, tasks, and calendar
> information.
>
> It was originally developed for Evolution (hence the name), but
> is now used by other packages.
>
> Cheers
> Steffen.
>
>
Thanks.
I like how Mandrake/iva shows the deps when installing. Fedora just
does it and
doesn't say why.
And frankly, the install log Fedora generates in root is useless. I
would have expect
details and descriptions of dep resolves and what not.
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