KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

[Mark Haney]

Martín Marqués wrote:
> 2009/2/16 Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Martín Marqués
>> <martin.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> IMHO, this is the beginning of the end of KDE
>> Because some portions of it require a free database engine? Seriously?
> 
> Not becuase of that. Because it's starting to use resources which are
> totally unnecesary. It's starting to look like the Linux Vista: Nice,
> but useless.
> 

What part of KDE requires MySQL server?  None that I am aware of. But
then I build my own from source and not rely on these asinine package
dependencies from binary packages.  There are NO KDE components that
/require/ MySQL.  You can' specify database support, but it's not required.



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