Hi Eugen,
you seem confused. What you described above is exactly what I said would
happen and this is what I want to happen to solve your problem.
step 1. apt-get remove gnome-desktop-environment
this removes 2 meta-packages. notice that it does not remove the 50+
packages, and the size of 'gnome' and 'gnome-desktop-environment' are
less than 500kb in size.
Removing these 2 packages will allow you to remove evolution with no
problem.
step 2. apt-get remove evolution
step 3. apt-get install gnome-core
this makes sure that you have a least the basic gnome packages.
This will solve your problem. Not sure what else needs explaining.
Cheers,
Kev
Hi,
I did it. I removed gnome-desktop-environment. The gnome package was removed
also.
After this, I used aptitude to see what happened, and I found all that 50+
packages scheduled for deletion. They all had the automatic flag on. So, I
had to check most of them and 'keep' them (command ':').
The result is that I was able to remove evolution and rhythmbox packages. I
still have evolution-data-server, a big 9MB package because it seems that
gnome meeting depends on it.
Considering that there is no real dependency between Gnome and Evolution,
this procedure was not a simple way to remove the mail client. Also I had to
give up to those meta-packages which may have some usefulness that I lost.
Due to the package management, Evolution seems to be more integrated than it
really is.
As I understand these meta-packages are normal empty packages. Maybe they
should be more flexible, in a way to allow differentiating between a real
dependency and an association of packages.
Thanks for assistance,
Eugen
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