Bug 194284

Summary: latest evolution dependency issue
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
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Description Piergiorgio Sartor 2006-06-06 20:37:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
Well, it quite simple, latest evolution update requires, for
unknown reasons, "NetworkManager-glib".
This one pulls in a lot of other packages, which are not always
quite useful, like "wpa_supplicant" or "dhcdb".

I checked the evolution homepage and the rpm changelog, and I found
no reference to "NetworkManager-glib", so I was wondering if this is
really a necessary dependency or slipped in by mistake.

The issue is that things like "wpa_supplicant" will be disabled
(on my system, and, I guess, on many others), so the dependency
from "NetworkManager", which comes from "NetworkManager-glib",
is useless, unless the service is enabled.

This lead to think that the dependency chain should be reconsidered,
also in order to avoid junk packages around the system.

Thanks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.2-1.fc5.1
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2007-01-01 02:52:12 UTC 
Evolution uses NetworkManager to detect when to switch to offline mode.