KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Martín Marqués
<martin.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/16 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:
>> Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
>>
>>> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  > 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.
>>>
>>> If every applications starts its own copy of mysql\
>>
>> In this caes, it's one mysql instance for akonadi, which all akonadi-using
>> apps will share (per user, by default).
>
> I think he was talking about other apps (non-KDE ones). Say I start
> emacs and it want's to store cache and configuration info in a mysql
> database, or I want to use rythmbox (which is a GNOME app) and GNOME
> start's it's own mysql instance.
>
> IMHO, this is the beginning of the end of KDE

Because some portions of it require a free database engine? Seriously?

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