Has anyone actually tested this "fix"? I'm not sure this "fix" is going to do
what you expect, because:
1. If you want to be allow users to install gnome-pilot and sync with
evolution, then
Evolution needs to be linked against gnome-pilot. That's why the
Evolution package
depends on the libgnome-pilot2 package. So you can't just remove
gnome-pilot.
2. The Evolution conduits are not part of the gnome-pilot-conduits package,
they're part of the
Evolution distribution.
Evolution depends on gnome-pilot, unless you compile it out.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that this "fix" will simply result in removing
certain non-Evolution conduits
that do things like syncing time to the desktop time, providing non-Evolution
syncing of memos,
and syncing of Avantgo.
To be honest, I didn't follow the arguments for removal. They seemed to come
down to:
* "Palm is obsolete, let's get rid of this cruft from Ubuntu". This is not
a great way to endear
yourself to users.
* "gnome-pilot only supports PalmOS. Why support just one PDA platform?".
Well, great, let's
support all platforms with a single unified package. The only problem is
that package doesn't
exist, so why remove support for PalmOS?
* "You can just install gnome-pilot if you need it. Even better, why not
prompt the user to install
gnome-pilot when a palm is detected?". Good idea, and I'd be totally in
favour. However, no
one has stepped up to write this component and, as mentioned above, there
are problems
with Evolution for actually accomplishing this.
Aren't there more productive things to be doing than removing working
useful software?
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