KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

Martín Marqués martin.marques at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 18:58:55 UTC 2009


2009/2/16 Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
> 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.

Please, enlight me. How can akonadi work without a mysql instance?

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Which_DBMS_does_Akonadi_use.3F

BTW, is there a way to disable akonadi and still work with KDE destop?

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