Bug#595070: Attempting to uninstall evolution-data-server forces removal of gnome-core, gnome-panel, etc.

[Paul Taylor]

Hi Josselin: Thanks for your reply. Here is what I get when I enter the command you suggested:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
debi:~# apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-session evolution-data-server-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gnome-panel is already the newest version.
gnome-panel set to manually installed.
gnome-session is already the newest version.
gnome-session set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-control-center: Depends: evolution-data-server but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
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Evolution-data-server is already installed, as I couldn't have completed my last full-upgrade if I hadn't let it install.

Does gnome-control-center actually use evolution-data-server? And if so, what changed between my last version and the latest?

Thanks

Paul Taylor

--- On Sun, 9/5/10, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> From: Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#595070: Attempting to uninstall evolution-data-server forces removal of gnome-core, gnome-panel, etc.
> To: "PolicyKit" <jenningsthecat at yahoo.ca>, 595070 at bugs.debian.org
> Received: Sunday, September 5, 2010, 10:26 AM
> Le mardi 31 août 2010 à 16:19
> -0400, PolicyKit a écrit :
> > I just did a full-upgrade, and was forced to either
> accept the addition of
> > evolution-data-server or not complete the upgrade. (I
> ran aptitude with the
> > ''-R' switch, but it made no difference). As far as I
> know nothing else I have
> > installed makes use of this package. So after I
> completed the upgrade, I tried
> > to remove evolution-data-server; but I would have been
> forced to also remove
> > gnome-accessibility, gnome-applets,
> gnome-control-center, gnome-core, gnome-
> > panel, and gnome-session. Surely the gnome packages
> listed above don't REALLY
> > require evolution-data-server and its related deps in
> order to function?
> 
> gnome-desktop-environment indeed depends on e-d-s, but
> gnome-panel and
> gnome-core do not.
> 
> > In Bug Report #563484, Josselin Mouette stated that
> evolution-data-server can
> > be removed without affecting gnome-core, etc. But I
> can find no way to remove
> > evolution-data-server without removing these other
> critical components.
> 
> Try this: 
> apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-session
> evolution-data-server-
> (Don’t forget the - at the end.)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
>  .''`.      Josselin Mouette
> : :' :
> `. `'  “If you behave this way because you are
> blackmailed by someone,
>   `-    […] I will see what I can do for
> you.”  -- Jörg Schilling
>