Submission + - Mono (think: .NET) infects Gnome desktop
The cancerous Mono has spread its tentacles further into the GNOME Desktop environment which is present on the GNOME live CD, to the extent that removing mono-core results in the removal of Evolution as well, the default mail program.
In effect, if you remove the package mono-core Evolution and a number of other packages are broken.
Now we begin to see what the Novell-Microsoft deal is really about: Contaminate Gnome with patented technology, then sue other distributions that depend on mono.