Why must Gnome include Evolution?

isez2001 · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 20

If it works, make it as public as you possibly can.

Clearly, there are at least a few people (and probably more who haven't spoken up yet) who would like to use it, and who knoows... you might be on to something with this "options" thing

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Emopig · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 188

gnome-experimental overlay users may have noticed that bugbuddy, the Gnome bug reporting tool, now relies on components of evolution data server...
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drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1316 Location: London

Ok, I'll confess in advance I've only read the first page of this thread... But in case it's not been suggested in the page and a half I haven't read ;

Why screw with the gnome overlay? If you 'emerge gnome', chances are you'd like gnome as upstream intend. & gnome-light may not be to everyone's taste. So why not something like a 'gnome-core' (or whatever) that includes all the 'complete gui' stuff except web browser and evolution? (personally I actually like evolution, even though I flit between gnome, fluxbox, kde and fvwm

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daschapa · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

I believe Gnome is most than a desktop environment. My conception about Gnome aproaches more to a "Work Environment". It may sound like a silly word game, but i understand Gnome is a big umbrella that has anything you need to do you jobs. It is a Ready2Go environment.
You can emerge gnome-light, it doesn't include evolution.
It is only my personal viewspot.
Bye, and excuse my poor, sad, bad english.
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Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

Problem with gnome-lite, as stated previously, is that is gives you hardly anything, making it somewhat unusable. The rest you only have those two options, though, is the Gnome herb have decided that they will not split up the ebuild, and that they will provide it as-is as far as what is concerned with what is incorparated into the DE.

Its just bloat until they change their minds and decide to go the way of KDE with the split ebuilds.
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olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 606

I agree there should be an option to remove epiphany and evolution, as I never use them and they are just sitting there (using firefox/thunderbird instead).

But the problem is if you can get an epiphany and/or evolution flag, then why not include a games flag to remove the gnome games, why not include a use flag for nautilus or for totem?...those are installed by default aswell and I don't use totem and I don't use most of the gnome-utils either...that would mean that they would have to set a use flag for each package which would take alot of work.
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flysideways · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 145

I'd be happy with some documentation/guidance that showed how to build up functionality from gnome-light. I came to Gentoo partially because I was tired of removing everything that I did't want and had no use for in other distros.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1316 Location: London

Why not just knock up an ebuild with a lot of DEPEND/RDEPEND's so you've got your own metapackage? Saves messing up your world file with havoc...

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

True, but my world file is already messed up, with 900 entries

Keeping the world file a reasonable size doesn't have any importance to me.

flysideways · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 145