[Evolution] Re: red carpet/evolution with RH

[Alec Schramm <alec oxy edu>]

> This is where Red Carpet is a big win.
>
> I've avoided the Ximian Gnome install because it will play havoc with a
> future upgrade of Red Hat. When 7.3 came out, the release notes made it
> clear that an upgrade from 7.2 would probably break if Ximian Gnome
> packages were in place. So I backed out the few Ximian packages I had
> before the upgrade, and then reinstalled those I really wanted.
>
> If you install Evo using Red Carpet, it will take care of getting
> exactly the prerequisite Ximian packages you need, and no more.


Sorry to be dim, but I think it pays to make certain on this point.  
If I'm using RH 7.3 fresh, and then use Red Carpet to upgrade to a 
later version of Evolution, everything will be OK?  No mail folders or 
their contents will be lost?  

The reason I'm gun shy is that I tried just this with AbiWord, and now 
I have a non-functioning program.  I even tried to uninstall it in
gnorpm
and reinstall from the RH site, but no go.  It's not *that* important to
me, 
so I never tried to fix it; I always just assumed that Red Carpet had
changed
something not included with the RH rpm.  But it's left me reticent to
use 
redcarpet for any channel other than RH 7.3.

-A