Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-06 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Monique Y. Herman bounceswoosh.org> writes: > What are the drawbacks of just uninstalling the gnome package and > keeping the packages on which it depends (except for evolution and > certain others)? Just do `aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment` and you won't get Evolution, Gnome-office,

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-05, Alex Malinovich penned: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:29:25PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I installed the gnome package on my machine. This sucked in a bunch >> of packages, including evolution. >> >> I like evolution, but I have zero use for it on this machine, and >> it's h

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Monique writes: > What are the drawbacks of just uninstalling the gnome package and keeping > the packages on which it depends None. The sole function of the Gnome package is to pull in those packages by depending on them. Once it has done so you can safely dispense with it. -- John Hasler [EMA

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:29:25PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I installed the gnome package on my machine. This sucked in a bunch of > packages, including evolution. > > I like evolution, but I have zero use for it on this machine, and it's > huge. Unfortunately, if I try to remove it, ap

gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I installed the gnome package on my machine. This sucked in a bunch of packages, including evolution. I like evolution, but I have zero use for it on this machine, and it's huge. Unfortunately, if I try to remove it, aptitude whines and cries and "fixes" things in the name of gnome. I guess gno