Jaunty: Evolution cannot be uninstalled completely (unless you want to wreck your system)

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Binary package hint: evolution-data-server-common

After more than two years of testing various versions of Evolution which came with various Ubuntu releases, I can see no progress whatsoever as far as the question of function in connection with an Exchange 2003 server is concerned, so I wondered if Evolution could be completely uninstalled from a 9.04 system which runs on an Eee PC with only 4 GB internal flash memory (i.e. on a machine where one can't waste memory for programs that one does not use).

I was amazed to see that evolution-data-server-common cannot be uninstalled via Synaptic unless you wish to remove ubuntu-desktop, gnome-panel and various other important packages, too, which would basically mean that you would wreck your system.

I wonder why the Ubuntu developers would want to stipulate that Ubuntu users have to use Evolution.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.