[PLUG] Does removing cyrus-sasl break evolution?

[Ian Burrell]

Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> On Redhat 7.3 server I want to remove openldap and cyrus sasl since I
> don't use them, but libuser and evolution apparently depend on these.
> Can I ignore this dependency safely?  Is there an easy way to tell if 
> an rpm dependency is for certain functionality that isn't desired 
> verses something a package won't function without at all?
> 

The openldap and cryus-sasl packages are the client libraries.  Not the 
servers.  libuser uses them to do authentication to LDAP directories. 
evolution uses them to do LDAP address books and may use SASL for 
protocol authentication.  If you don't use LDAP, you probably can remove 
them.

On the other hand, they aren't that big compared to evolution and all of 
its GNOME dependencies.

  - Ian

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