Journal jdavidb's Journal: Evolution: monopolistically integrated 3
Today I'm removing evolution from my Fedora 8 system, because it ate my mail this morning, and I'm switching to Thunderbird.
Remember how livid the world was because Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer was integrated into the OS and could not be removed, even if you were to remove the icon from the desktop? Well, pot, meet kettle: if I attempt to remove the package evolution-data-server from my system, it attempts to take along with it a whopping 32 other packages, including pidgin (the IM client formerly known as gaim) and gnome itself in the form of crucial pieces of gnome such as gnome-panel and gnome-applets.
Gnome and evolution should immediately be sued and brought to justice for their evil monopolistic practices.
integration (Score:1)
I thought that the problem was Microsoft actually claimed that Explorer was integrated into the OS, which is why they couldn't remove it, despite evidence from MS critics that IE could be removed.
No matter. I gave up on Gnome years ago when I realized that I could not compile it from source on my own. I actually ran into a condition of circular dependencies. I'll go as far as Gtk (that's still pretty easy to get installed), but I won't touch Gnome with a 10-foot pole on my systems. I use it at work, but
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I used to compile Gnome from source on my own for recreation. :)
There goes that plan (Score:1)
Ubuntu does the same thing - takes all the "-desktop" apps (incudes Open Office, im, browser, etc), as they have evolution as part of the desktop "meta" package.
You can add tehm back manually if you can log or remember what they were.
I just configured gnome to open thunderbird instead and killed what I could find of evolution services.