Bug#582173: Don't depend on evolution-exchange|evolution-mapi

Wouter Bolsterlee uws at xs4all.nl
Sat May 29 11:59:13 UTC 2010


Op vrijdag 28-05-2010 om 11:08 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Josselin
Mouette:
> 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.

My only point was that evolution-exchange should not be a hard
dependency for Evolution, since it isn't.

    — Wouter
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