Gerald, On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 22:30 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > I find that I am running a couple of services that I don't feel I > should since I am not Evolution for e-mail nor anything else: > > /usr/lib/evolution-data-server/evolution-source-registry > /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/evolution-alarm-notify > /usr/lib/evolution-data-server/evolution-calendar-factory > > Alas, half of Gnome seems to depend on it: > > The following 4 applications are going to be REMOVED: > Contacts Evolution Notes "Tweak Tool" > > The following 37 packages are going to be REMOVED: bijiben evolution > evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-lang gdm > gdm-branding-openSUSE gnome-contacts gnome-session > gnome-session-default-session gnome-shell gnome-shell-browser-plugin > gnome-shell-extensions-common gnome-shell-extensions-common-lang > gnome-shell-search-provider-bijiben gnome-shell-search-provider-contacts > gnome-shell-search-provider-documents > gnome-shell-search-provider-nautilus gnome-tweak-tool libebackend-1_2-7 > libebook-1_2-14 libebook-contacts-1_2-0 libecal-1_2-16 > libedata-book-1_2-20 libedata-cal-1_2-23 libedataserver-1_2-18 > libfolks-eds25 libfolks-telepathy25 libfolks-tracker25 libfolks25 > patterns-openSUSE-gnome patterns-openSUSE-gnome_basis > patterns-openSUSE-gnome_imaging patterns-openSUSE-gnome_imaging_opt > patterns-openSUSE-gnome_laptop patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office > patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office_opt patterns-openSUSE-gnome_utilities > > The following 8 patterns are going to be REMOVED: > gnome gnome_basis gnome_imaging gnome_imaging_opt gnome_laptop > gnome_office gnome_office_opt gnome_utilities > > 37 packages to remove. > After the operation, 36,9 MiB will be freed.
Most of those things do not depend on evolution-data-server directly, but something else that is going to be removed. in fact, the critical part in there is gnome-shell, which relies on e-d-s services for the calendaring applet in the top bar. And once gnome-shell is marked for removal by zypper, there is not much gnome left (gnome-tweak-tool depends on gnome-shell; gnome-imaging pattern depends on the regular gnome pattern, which of course, requires gnome-shell). I don't think we'd be doing ourselves a big favor to try to work around a non-existing service; I've seen way too many crashes for e-d-s services not being reachable. that the tradeoff to have them there is just not expensive enough to even work on incoming bugs. Hope that clears it a bit. Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <[email protected]>
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