On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 11:31 +0800, Ed Greshko 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). > > > > It's the "akonadi" package that requires a MySQL server to run. > > Google shows that there's been a long discussion about this issue > > some months ago. Unfortunately, akonadi cannot be uninstalled, > > because that will break a lot of KDE dependencies. > > > > Is there an easy way around it? An end-user desktop environment > > requires a full-blown local database to be setup and run. Wow, I > > didn't know that so many users are professional database admins > > and know what to do. No KDE without MySQL. > > > > For now, the KDE 4.2 stuff can be ignored: > > > > yum update -x akonadi -x 'kde*' -x 'PyKDE*' -x ksysguardd -x oxygen-icon-theme > > > > Of couse, KDE updates cannot be ignored forever ... > > > > Is this MySQL dependency by intention? Couldn't find anything > > helpful on this or on the devel mailing list, although this is > > a big issue, IMHO. > > > FWIW, I did notice a screen pop up during the most recent update...but > it was hidden behind a terminal window. I was going to go back and try > to figure out was it was all about....but subsequently forgot about it. > Your post did enlighten me as to what happened as I now recall seeing > "akonadi" at some point. > > But, I have been using the latest version of KDE for the past several > days...and I haven't been bothered or presented with the need to know > anything about MySQL. I only now notice there is an instance of MySQL > running not taking up much resources. I'm not sure it would have come > to my attention if you hadn't written your post. > > 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. ---- thanks for the info - I was sort of wondering about this myself but my attention has been on trying to get the little damn 1024x600 screen to a larger virtual display. It does seem curious to me that they would have chosen MySQL instead of SQLite Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
