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[Alkis Georgopoulos <1502570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because then we would lose all the other recommended packages:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/gnome-panel

alacarte    easy GNOME menu editing tool 
evolution-data-server    evolution database backend server 
gnome-applets    Various applets for the GNOME panel - binary files 
gnome-session-flashback (>= 3.14.0)    GNOME Session Manager - GNOME Flashback session 
gvfs    userspace virtual filesystem - GIO module 
indicator-applet-complete    Clone of the GNOME panel indicator applet 
unity-control-center    utilities to configure the GNOME desktop 

Listing those one-by-one in the `apt-get install` line of our installer
script is possible but it makes the code too much ubuntu-version
specific.


And of course other users installing gnome-panel (notably LTSP users) running the `apt-get install` manually wouldn't be aware of this bug in order to read it and run it with --no-install-recommends.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502570

Title:
  gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

Status in gnome-panel package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/gnome-panel
  gnome-panel Recommends: evolution-common
  ...which in turn Recommends: evolution

  Is this on purpose?
  Could you please lower the "Recommends" to "Suggests"?
  Gnome-flashback isn't a flavor with a live CD etc, so it makes more sense to keep the vanilla Ubuntu defaults, i.e. thunderbird as the mailer...

  If evolution-common is necessary for gnome-flashback, but evolution
  isn't, please mention it so that we ask them instead to lower their
  Recommends to Suggests.

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