I talked to Gnome devs and it appears that evolution-data-server is not
really a part of Evolution, but rather a part of Gnome itself, but it
carries a somewhat obsolete and inaccurate name. It should probably be
called 'gnome-data-server', and yes, Gnome absolutely needs it.
** Changed in: evolut
note that you can uninstall evolution, evolution-data-server is only a
set of libraries used in different applications, the name might be
confusing but there is no real reason why an user would need to
uninstall those
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Evolution is impossible to get rid of on Gnome 2.22
https://bugs.launchpad.n
it's not possible to have a GNOME 100% free of Evolution since a lot of
applications had good features depending on it, like the gnome-about-me
part of the gnome-control-center package which saves the user
information through evolution data server and the same goes for the
gnome-panel which interac
