FS#40674 - [evolution-ews]: Why no dependency on evolution?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Magnus Therning (magus) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 07:29 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 11:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
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Details

Description:
I gather the package evolution-ews is rather useless without evolution, right?
Why not make it more than just makedepend on it then?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 11:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 08:48 GMT
It's not useless, it's a plugin for evolution-data-server to access Exchange accounts. If you don't want Evolution, but do want gnome-shell to read your Exchange calendar, then you don't need to install Evolution.
Comment by Magnus Therning (magus) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 08:52 GMT
Ah, that's cool. I wasn't aware that was even possible. The problem then becomes getting the account information to evolution-data-server I suppose, don't I need Evolution for that?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 11:22 GMT
evolution-ews contains a UI plugin for evolution yes. In theory it's also possible to configure evolution-ews by adding settings to dconf.

Given the fact that once setup evolution-ews doesn't need evolution anymore to do its work, and the fact that you're looking for a way to integrate exchange into evolution instead of finding out what is needed to get evolution-ews running, I don't see the need for a dependency of even optdepend on evolution here.

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