Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And yes akonadi does require MySWL, but KDE 4.2 does NOT require > akonadi. So my point is still very valid. In Fedora 10, akonadi cannot be un-installed without removing KDE. And KDE cannot be updated to version 4.2 without updating akonadi as well. In the end, KDE 4.2 requires MySQL (server) to be installed. Yes, you may run KDE without akonadi, and akonadi may use remote databases, but Fedora 10 insists on installing MySQL server packages if you want to have KDE 4.2. And by default, akonadi uses a local MySQL instance. That's weird for a desktop workstation, and it's the wrong way to use a database like MySQL. Are all KDE core developers aware of this new dependency, and are they all happy about it? However, I accept the fact that KDE 4.2 now depends on MySQL, and installing a different Linux distribution after all these years won't help because sooner or later all other Linux distributions will have the same dependencies which come from akonadi (and without akonadi, you cannot install KDE). So, until GNOME people start their local MySQL instances as well, the only option is to remove KDE from the system. It's okay. Fedora has always been more GNOME-ish than KDE-ish, so it's not such a big loss. I'm not using KDE as my default desktop environment, but I liked some KDE apps. Will search for alternatives. Don't worry ... Andreas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
