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Hi,

I hope that this is the right place for this question:

I would like to remove Evolution and replace it with Thunderbird. What I would like to know is whether removing Evolution will have any adverse "side effects" on the functioning of Mageia. I read somewhere that in Ubuntu some of the packages used by Evolution are required by other programs and that if Evolution is completely removed removed then the computer might become unbootable. Is this the case with Mageia too?

My main reason fro wanting to remove Evolution is that I can't get it to work how I want it to and I am more familiar with Thunderbird. Also, I am running short of disc space

In my Gnome installation evolution removal has no dependencies except nautilus-sendto-evolution. So you can safely remove evolution with 'urpme evolution'.

For future use: To find out what urpme or urpmi will cause use the "test" option, in this case:

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# urpme --test evolution

It does only a dry run, so you are safe.

adriano wrote: I read somewhere that in Ubuntu some of the packages used by Evolution are required by other programs and that if Evolution is completely removed removed then the computer might become unbootable.

That sounds much like FUD.
Or like somebody who doesn't know how to use the software management. Anyways, even if Evolution would remove
the whole GNOME desktop with it, the machine will still be bootable. There is no interconnection between those.
If there is one at Ubuntu, then that would be more than dumb.

Many thanks to you all, I have now removed Evolution and replaced it with Thunderbird

I always remove it and replace with Thunderbird myself...I really have no need for evolution. It seems clonky to me.