[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

[Stephen Mirowski]

Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 22:55 -0700, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
>   
>> I don't use Evolution;  however, if I uninstall it, deps would remove 
>> Gnome
>>     
>
> Not on this machine (FC4). Attempting to "yum remove evolution" gives:
>
> Removing:
>  evolution               i386  2.2.3-3.fc4  installed    24 M
> Removing for dependencies:
>  evolution-connector     i386  2.2.3-1.fc4  installed   6.5 M
>
>
> You probably tried to remove evolution-data-server as well. Its
> functionality is used beyond the evolution mail client:
>
>         Description :
>         The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for
>         programs that work with contacts, tasks, and calendar
>         information.
>         
>         It was originally developed for Evolution (hence the name), but
>         is now used by other packages.
>
> Cheers
> Steffen.
>
>   
Thanks.

I like how Mandrake/iva shows the deps when installing.  Fedora just 
does it and
doesn't say why.

And frankly, the install log Fedora generates in root is useless.  I 
would have expect
details and descriptions of dep resolves and what not.