Bug#582173: Don't depend on evolution-exchange|evolution-mapi
Josselin Mouette
joss at debian.org
Fri May 28 09:08:29 UTC 2010
Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 09:09 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> > Currently the "gnome" metapackage depends on evolution-exchange |
> > evolution-mapi. My favourite desktop environment does not depend on
> > connectors for proprietary products and protocols,
>
> Yes, it does. At least since 2.13, see:
> <http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen/Desktop>
>
> Current releases do even include both connectors:
> <http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentynine/Desktop>
And to be more precise, we include a lot of connectors for proprietary
stuff: for CIFS mounts, for NTFS disks, for iPods, for youtube…
Interoperability, even with the most crippled and proprietary
technology, is Linux’ strength.
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