I know what it does. Besides, this does apply to other such packages. I
remember on Debian, I was able to remove Empathy with the keep-all command
(because I preferred pidgin), but I'd rather do something cleaner as I
described above.
alguien@computadora:~$ sudo aptitude show evolution-data-server-common
[sudo] password for alguien:
Package: evolution-data-server-common
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 3.2.3-0ubuntu7.1
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 516 k
Description: architecture independent files for Evolution Data Server
The data server, called "Evolution Data Server" is responsible for managing
calendar and addressbook information.
This package contains the architecture independent files needed by the
evolution-data-server package.
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
I don't use Evolution, and I don't use their calendar and addressbook (I
don't even use calendars and addressbooks, period).
alguien@computadora:~$ sudo aptitude why evolution-data-server-common
i libedataserverui-3.0-1 Depends evolution-data-server-common (>= 3.2)
alguien@computadora:~$ sudo aptitude show libedataserverui-3.0-1
Package: libedataserverui-3.0-1
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.2.3-0ubuntu7.1
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 642 k
Depends: gconf-service, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2
(>=
1.10.0), libcamel-1.2-29 (>= 3.2), libcamel-1.2-29 (< 3.3),
libebook-1.2-12 (>= 3.2.3), libecal-1.2-10 (>= 3.2.3),
libedataserver-1.2-15 (>= 3.2.3), libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1),
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8),
libgnome-keyring0 (>= 3.2.2-2~), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0),
libpango1.0-0
(>= 1.14.0), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.31.2), evolution-data-server-common
(>=
3.2)
Conflicts: libedataserverui1.2-dev, libedataserverui1.2-dev,
libedataserverui-3.0-1
Description: GUI utility library for evolution data servers
The data server, called "Evolution Data Server" is responsible for managing
calendar and addressbook information.
This package is a GUI utility library for evolution-data-server.
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
As you can see, these packages are useless to me. But I can always reinstall
things if something goes wrong. :P
