On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 14:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 13:27 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Due to the annoying increased dependencies on systemd I would like to
> > run evolution without having to install gnome-session, which drags in a
> > lot of packages I don't want, especially the libsystemd-* stuff. Neither
> > do I want network manager for internet connection. Is that possible at
> > all, or do I have to change MUA? evo starts, but does not connect to the
> > internet.
> > Suggests: network-manager
> 
> You don't need NetworkManager, 

OK

> I'm not running GNOME, but sure, Evolution is a GNOME app and needs some
> stuff from GNOME, you perhaps can replace something from the GNOME
> dependency chain by dummy packages. Building a dummy package for Debian
> is easy when using equivs
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html , but you
> can't add dummy packages for dependencies that are really needed. 

I have all dependencies installed and network is controlled by ifupdown.
Still evo does not read any mail updates from the internet. 

> I
> usually have dummy packages for gvfs and pulseaudio assumed a package
> should hard depend to it. So I don't have the "misfunctionality" of gvfs
> and pulseaudio, but no app that hard depends to one of them is broken.

I have both gvfs and pulseaudio installed, but I don't think removing
them will change anything?

> JFTR I'm not using GNOME.

For me evo starts, but does not connect to internet at all, the link is
up and other applications works, e.g. iceweasel and apt??

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