KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 12:43:45 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 07:36 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> > Well if I am not mistaken Kabc is using it, I am not sure if it is set to
> > use Kabc initially as default, Rex, Kevin?
> 
> Actually I think Akonadi is simply set up to autostart as a service, no
> matter whether you actually have stuff using it or not.

Not good, on general principles. Even if it's not consuming any
resources (and of course nothing that's running is consuming *zero*
resources) it's a potential security problem to have stuff running "just
because". I don't say it's the only thing that does this, but that
doesn't make it right.

poc




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