Re: Evolution is missing icons in GUI and crashes - maybe dbus issue

["Doctor Who" <whodoctor%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Jan 17, 2008 4:13 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:19:38 -0500
> "Doctor Who" <whodoctor%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > After installing gnome-control-center (still confused as to why that
> > was not done as a dependency of other packages like Evolution)
>
> Probably just a simple mistake.  If that solves your problem, send-pr
> the issue and someone will fix the package.
>
> As for how the mistake happened -- developing packages with a lot of
> dependencies is difficult, especially if you're working on a machine
> with many packages installed.  Did the package work because you got all
> of the dependencies right, or because you just happened to have
> something installed that someone else might not?  I had problems with a
> package just two weeks ago because of the maintainer's configuration.
> (OTOH, a couple of years ago I had the opposite problem.  I couldn't
> build a particular package because of something else I had installed --
> an unfortunate namespace collision -- but for a long time, the package
> maintainer was very puzzled because he couldn't reproduce my problem.
> Eventually, I figured out that the namespace collision was occurring.)
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>

Yes, this fixed it for me.  Thanks all for the help.