[Wolves] Forcefully removing a package on Debian

[Ron Wellsted]

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Stuart Langridge wrote:
| Andy Wootton wrote:
|
|>> Just install another MTA. The issue here is that the "sendmail"
|>> package provides the virtual package "mail-transport-agent", and lots
|>> of stuff depends on that. If you install something *else* that also
|>> provides "mail-transport-agent" then you'll be able to remove sendmail
|>
|> ...
|> Is there a similar trick for Evolution in Ubuntu? I've removed it from
|> the menus but I know its there,  lurking.Synaptic won't let me remove
|> it because ubuntu-desktop depends on it. I've got Thunderbird 1.
|
|
| No. The reason you need Evo there is that, as far as I can tell, bits of
| Gnome depend on it. I'm not happy about this either, but you have to
| have it installed, even if you don't use it. I'm resigning myself to
| this as the price you pay for proper integration; although the Linux
| ethos of allowing users to individually swap out any component of their
| system for an equivalent system is a good one in theory, in practice it
| means that people write over-geenric interfaces to everything and *no*
| integration happens. I think integration is better, but it does have a
| price to pay...

Interestingly Gentoo just let me remove evo (& the exchange connector)
without any complaints or problems.  (I have switched to tbird)  It
looks like someone is being overly cautious in their dependencies.


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