On Nov 29, 2013 5:29 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 16:34 -0500, Jon N wrote:
> > Enlightenment seems a long way from the heavyweights like Gnome, Mate,
> > etc. Why do you feel that is also a no-go?
>
> During the years I tested it several times and it never was stable when
> I used it.
>
> > Funny you should mention that. One of the things I found odd is that
> > when I went to upgrade gdm3 it wanted to install Evolution. Why would
> > a display manager need a desktop program that does email/calendar/etc?
>
> If you used synaptic, it might be, that it was set up to automatically
> install optional dependencies too. Unlikely that the dependency chain
> does include Evolution ... but not impossible ;).
I checked, that option is turned off (which I prefer). But I remembered later that Gnome-session was in the upgrade list also, so it was probably that.