Evolution without gnome

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:06, sebastian ssmoller wrote:
> hi,
> so i have to install a lot of gnome stuff to be able to use evolution
> right ? thats bad :(  ... i wonder if all these dependencies are really
> necessary ...

Everything Evo ropes in (except for gnomepilot2) is a required
dependency (basically libgnomeui and all of its dependencies, gtkhtml3,
gal2, and libsoup).

Joe

> 
> anyway: thx for ur help
> seb
> 
> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 18:38, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 13:17, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > > On Sunday 02 November 2003 19:00, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:46, sebastian ssmoller wrote:
> > > > > hi,
> > > > > recently i set up a new freebsd current. i want to use xfce4 as
> > > > > desktop/window manager but also evolution as mail client. i had a look
> > > > > at the dependencies of evolution and found out that evolution depends on
> > > > > the whole gnome2 desktop (!)
> > > > >
> > > > > can anyone explain me why evolution depends on things like gnome-panel,
> > > > > gnome-desktop, ..., please?
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't.  However, it does optionally depend on gnomepilot2 which
> > > > depends on gnomepanel.  You can build Evo with -DWITHOUT_PILOT to remove
> > > > that dependency.
> > > >
> > > > > is there any way to use evolution without gnome-desktop installed (
> > >                                       ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
> > > ???? I don't think so!
> > 
> > Of course there is.  Read what I wrote previously.  The GNOME Desktop
> > itself consists of the actual gnomedesktop port, and everything that
> > depends on it.  Evolution does not depend on this port.  Evolution does,
> > however, depend on the GNOME Development Suite which is quite different
> > that the whole desktop.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > >         
> > > > > googled a bit but havnt found any useful information yet) ?
> > > >
> > > > Of course.  Just launch it under another desktop.
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > > > > thx
> > > > > seb
> > > > >
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