[Evolution] Anjal package finished for Debian

Li, Yan yanli at infradead.org
Wed Aug 5 22:37:52 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:52:00PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Another thing on my TODO list is to remove the dependency on the
> > evolution package. Anjal is designed to be lightweight for memory and
> > storage tight devices so install it along with the big evolution
> > package make it too heavy. But it depends on .so files shipping in the
> > evolution package now. The plan is to move the shared .so files into
> > a common package.
> > 
> > Please tell me if there's any problems. Thank you.
> 
> I'm a bit concerned about that. Splitting evolution package to separate
> shared libs from binaries might be doable, but that means again adding
> complexity to an already quite complex packaging (I'm quite sure
> everything will require strict versioned dependencies). Which .so are
> exactly needed by anjal to run? (I'm a bit surprise it even uses codes
> from the client, I thought it only used stuff from eds).

Anjal reuses some components and UI dialogs of Evolution. Anyhow,
package size optimization is a long term goal and need upstream
cooperation and I think we can just start from my current package and
upload it, which is usable now.

-- 
Li, Yan



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