Ubuntu has gone!

[Juan De Mola]

Ok. No more mixes.

Now, how I can quit evolution and leave the shared parts without
changes? Any command line tip?

On 4/21/09, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:
> Steven Susbauer wrote:
>> Juan De Mola wrote:
>>> Your opinion is good, valid and welcomed but I don't share this.
>>>
>>> The idea of a new dep checker come up after 2 years with the same
>>> crazy thing: you tell to ubuntu that you don't need something and it
>>> says you need uninstall n (where n is a separated pack not related or
>>> related by one or two libs). Example of this is the magical duo
>>> Evolution Ekiga. If the 1st is uninstalled the 2nd must too.
>>>
>>> It's the perfect logic you say don't need be reviewed?
>>>
>>> My tiny brain is unable to pass it on.
>>>
>>
>> This is not the case. Evolution does not exist on any of my systems, yet
>> I have Ekiga. Ekiga depends on evolution-data-center, which is probably
>> related to how it stores contacts, but you can remove Evolution itself.
>> (See http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ekiga)
>>
>> When you understand how exactly dependencies are generated, it makes a
>> lot more sense that the system is not a problem. The system does not
>> "check" dependencies, the packager lists them. When you try to install
>> it sees what the packager put as required, and will pull them in as
>> well, and does the same for all dependencies of the original package. A
>> new system checking dependencies is not going to change this behavior.
>>
>> If you feel a package should not have something as a dependency, you
>> should file a bug or ask on launchpad. There is a very big chance you
>> will be told exactly why something is a dependency.
>>
>> The only dependency issue that bothers me is how much relies on the
>> ubuntu-desktop meta package, though I have found in Jaunty a lot less is
>> a dependency and a lot more is recommended, meaning you can remove the
>> recommended items without forcing ubuntu-desktop to also be removed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Steve
>
> As an afterthought, I thought I would mention that Ekiga in Debian also
> depends on evolution-data-center, so you will essentially have the same
> issue, in fact the dependencies appear to be identical
> (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ekiga).
>
> It is always a bad idea to mix Debian and Ubuntu packages without making
> sure you understand the inner workings of the packaging system
> completely. If you want to use Debian packages you should use Debian.
>
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