Move Evolution to Extras?

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 13:03:18 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> Evolution is fairly much broken in FC5, and there's little movement even
> on the 'this mail crashes Evolution' bugs, let alone the "Evolution is
> totally unusable with IMAP" bugs.
>
> What are we going to do about it? One option might be to move it to
> Extras in the hope that someone will actually start to look after it
> there. Or perhaps just drop it entirely? Any better ideas? Volunteers?

Difficult to do considering the depchains. If you want beagle in Core
then evolution has to be in Core with the current packaging.  beagle
needs evolution-sharp which needs evolution.

-jef"though my candidate for wackiest depchain in Core right now is
rhythmbox's dependancy on totem through the libtotem-plparser.so.1
library"spaleta




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