On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 16:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 15:23 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > I have both gvfs and pulseaudio installed, but I don't think removing
> > them will change anything?
> 
> That are my preferences, I only mentioned them, to show that hard
> dependencies sometimes are unneeded and it won't break software, if you
> replace those dependencies by dummy packages. I e.g. use Thunar, for
> Thunar gvfs is optional, but for other file browsers gvfs is a hard
> dependency, but if you replace gvfs by a dummy package, those file
> browsers will work as Thunar does without gvfs, just the gvfs
> "features"/crap is missing.

Good to know, maybe we should create more dummy packages to get rid of
stupid unneeded dependencies ::

> IOW, if you should run into an insane dependency chain, needed
> dependencies for Evolution might come with dependencies that are
> irrelevant for Evolution, you don't need to compile all those needed
> software without the additional dependencies, you simply could replace
> the additional dependencies by dummy packages.

See above.

> > For me evo starts, but does not connect to internet at all, the link is
> > up and other applications works, e.g. iceweasel and apt??
> 
> How do you connect to the Internet?
ifupdown with:
cat /etc/network/interfaces
...
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
...

> IOW here I need to do more than just to make sure that "ethO" (enp3s0)
> is up. OTOH, when your web browser and package management are able to
> connect to the Internet, something seems to be fishy on your machine.

Yes something _is_ fishy, e.g. I can print from xpdf, a2ps and print
cups test pages, but cannot print from evolution or icewasel (this was
the reason I started to remove systemd and gnome packages). printing is
reported, but nothing comes out of the printer(s)
Konika-Minolta-C550/C652

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