[Bug 692791] Re: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale
Evolution is not installed by default in 11.10, so I don't see how this can be blamed on bug #424643. But I also don't see how this can be blamed on Ubuntu Software Center. Even if I use apt-get, installing evolution also installs evolution-common, evolution-plugins, evolution- webcal, and libevolution, while removing it removes only evolution- plugins. That seems, straightforwardly, a bug in apt. ** Summary changed: - Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale + Installing then removing evolution leaves unused packages behind ** Description changed: If i want to uninstall Evolution because i want to replace it, for example, with Thunderbird, i can't, because trying to un-install Evolution there are too much packages related to it and don't know if some of those packages should or shouldn't be removed. + + apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu9, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1 + 1. sudo apt-get install evolution + 2. sudo apt-get remove evolution + + What happens: + 1. evolution, evolution-common, evolution-plugins, evolution-webcal, and libevolution are installed. + 2. evolution and evolution-plugins are removed, but evolution-common, evolution-webcal, and libevolution are left installed. + + What should happen: + 2. evolution, evolution-common, evolution-plugins, evolution-webcal, and libevolution are all removed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791 Title: Installing then removing evolution leaves unused packages behind To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/692791/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 692791] Re: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale
Fire, I ran a few checks to try and work out exactly which package it is that's triggering the massed removal of your Ubuntu Desktop if you try and remove certain evolution packages, but... the reason for it (that I found in the past) is that Evolution, which is the official Gnome Groupware Suite, it also provides (amongst other things) the calendar/clock/date application that we're all used to seeing on our gnome desktop, and thus the removal of that removes one of the dependencies of ubuntu desktop. Because Gnome assumes you'll be using the gnome groupware suite, it's bundled into some of the Dependency fields of some of these applications... For example, empathy requires libedataserver, and others of the same genre of libraries. Removing a package that others depend on will request the removal of those packages. You'll probably find a chain from one of those packages all the way up. Ultimately though, consider the evolution packages as a Gnome library, ignore the name, for in truth, they probably contribute as much to Gnome as they do to evolution, and know that by removing the main evolution packages, you've removed the (sizable) chunk of packages that creates the application. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791 Title: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 692791] Re: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale
** Summary changed: - Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation + Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791 Title: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 692791] Re: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale
Thanks for your bugreport. The package manager (apt-get, aptitude, USC) is able to deal with the situation via the auto-installed information. This was pointed out by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre already. But because of bug #424643 this auto-installed information is not properly written for the default install packages. The reason is that apt-get install tasks in the base install not meta-packages and in the task all libs are explicted listed (and not pulled in via dependencies). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791 Title: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 692791] Re: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale
About the other aspect of the bug that is releated to USC. What exaclty is the bug here? USC will use the auto-installed information to remove no longer needed packages if a package is removed. And it will also display a list of packages that are going to be removed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791 Title: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 692791] Re: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale
Removing evolution, USC proposes me to install evolution-exchange and evolution-couchdb and this is ok. But there are other packages related to it that should be removed (automatically) with evolution evolution-exchange evolution-couchdb evolution-indicator evolution-common evolution-data-server-common evolution-data-server evolution-plugins libevolution and others. Trying to remove manually some of those, i don't know wich one, ubuntu-desktop; indicator-applet-session; gnome-applets; gnome-panel are removed too, without a clear rationale (or maybe i'm just stupid) . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791 Title: Lots of Evolution packages are left behind after uninstallation and some are removed without a clear rationale -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
