KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 08:55 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> > My reading was that he worried about *non-KDE* apps doing similar things
>> > without any interaction with Akonadi.
>> >
>> > So there are now two independant databases, one in KDE and one in Gnome.
>> > Those of us who use a mixture of apps are running both of them.
>>
>> If it matters, akonadi was designed to be DE-independent, with no kde
>> dependencies (other than qt).
>
> Is this because it uses qt to talk to the other KDE apps? Just curious.
>
> More to the point, my comment isn't about the relative merits of the
> various technologies. It's more in the sense that choice can carry costs
> which we may not always be aware of.


What cost are you considering there? The extra secondary storage bits
used by an additional database? I do not believe that simply having a
multiple databases increases MySQLs load.


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