dependencies running wild again
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Feb 17 07:37:21 UTC 2009
Steve Grubb wrote:
> This is madness. The dependencies pull in mysql server, but yet its not
> chkconfig'ed to actually run.
It's not needed to be. Akonadi starts its own per-user instance
automatically, no configuration or systemwide service needed.
> So what gives? Why force a new server to install on a stable release?
Because the new version of KDE needs it.
> And then after forcing it onto people's machines, its not even used?
It's used, just not as a systemwide service. Akonadi starts the mysqld
executable as the current user.
> Changes like this belong on rawhide, not F-9 stable.
KDE 4.2 brings many improvements our users have been waiting for ever since
we started shipping KDE 4, and the libraries are backwards-compatible. So
withholding it until F11 would not have been a good idea.
Kevin Kofler
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