Why is evolution a dependency of gnome?

davidgurvich · Veteran Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1063

I changed mail clients from evolution and then decided to update some packages. Prior to doing so I removed evolution and all it's packages. Gnome works perfectly well without it.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

emerge gnome-light instead of gnome.

Also, add "-eds" USE flag.
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ecatmur · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

Evolution is the official Gnome mail client; the gnome meta-ebuild depends on all the components of the Gnome desktop.
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bk0 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 266

gnome-light is unmaintained and deprecated. It's better to emerge GNOME package-by-package (gnome-desktop, gnome-libs, gnome-applets, etc) if you want a lightweight installation.

asiobob · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:06 am Post subject:

Gnome is a collection of applications and more recently the gods decided that evolution will be part of what makes up the Gnome desktop.
If having evolution on your system bugs you try adding it to /etc/portage/package.provided but note that evo2 is also a collection of packages so really just have it or get rid of evolution's deps if no other app uses it