kde needs mysql-server ??

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 22 20:39:26 UTC 2008


James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 22:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Enrico Scholz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you mean:
>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Can_Akonadi_use_a_normal_MySQL_server_running_on_my_system.3F 
>>>> ?  --> akonadi doees not need a local mysql-server but can use a mysql
>>>> server running somewhere else.
>>> Theoretically, yes.  The default config is to use a local one, however.
>> Then, instead of a direct dependency, it might be better to add the 
>> package to the comps group, leaving the users to remove the package if 
>> it is not required for their local configuration.
> 
>  Queue BZs about the fact that "yum groupremove KDE" now deletes the
> local mysql-server in 3, 2, ...

This is just one of the symptom of the general issue of how groups are 
defined. That needs to be fixed somehow.

Rahul




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