KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Feb 15 04:14:05 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:37 -0700, Jake Peavy wrote:
>  
> 
> On 2/14/09, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>         Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > most people with automatic updates might not have noticed,
>         but if
>         > you look closer, the recent bunch of updates, including KDE
>         4.2,
>         > installs the MySQL server on the machine (and some other
>         database
>         > related stuff which MySQL depends on).
>         
>         
>         Took a quick look at http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/ and on the
>         surface
>         seems like a reasonable direction/idea.  So, not quite sure as
>         to why
>         you may consider this to be a big issue.
>         
> 
> Linux bloat continues unabated.
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I think...

- that you would have to have kde-pim package installed to bloat here

- agreed on bloat but considering that my Acer Aspire One is 10 Gb
Windows installation and 5 Gb Fedora 10 and I have a lot more 'stuff'
installed in Fedora.

Just sayin'

Craig




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