Risks of remove Evolution

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Hello,
Upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04, in virtual machine to observe before upgrade my own machine. I always used Thunderbird. So, after upgraded to 20.04, what are the risks to remove Evolution ? When I type the command to remove, all these packages will be removed:

user:~$ sudo apt autoremove --purge evolution
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
  bogofilter* bogofilter-bdb* bogofilter-common* evolution* evolution-common* evolution-ews* evolution-plugin-bogofilter* evolution-plugin-pstimport*
  evolution-plugins* evolution-rss* libchamplain-0.12-0* libchamplain-gtk-0.12-0* libevolution* libgnome-autoar-0-0* libgnome-autoar-gtk-0-0*
  libgnome-desktop-3-19* libgsl23* libgslcblas0* libmspack0* libpst4* libytnef0*
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 21 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Après cette opération, 39,1 Mo d'espace disque seront libérés.
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Generally only packages will be removed that are not in use by something else so you should be ok.

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You do not need to remove Evolution in order to use Thunderbird Philippe. I use Thunderbird myself and think that there is no benefit at all in removing Evolution.

Good luck @Philippe

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Hello mdooley

Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that if evolution is installed, then some kind of service (a server?) runs constantly in the background to inform you of calender event alarms. Thus it would be constantly using system resources. Consequently, removing it would have a power consumption benefit, besides keeping the computer in question lean. :thinking:

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Well alpinejohn, you may well be correct. I don't use Evolution but have not uninstalled it and System Monitor displays three sleeping processes originating from Evolution; evolution-addressbook-factory, evolution-calendar-factory and evolution-source-registry. I suppose that they could be sucking the marrow out of my OS but not by more than a tiny whisker, probably at start-up. Removing Evolution might give someone else a minuscule benefit. Nice call.