In <ea6cc0c70906020937q4c1af8d8y8e7ade5352372f97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David A. Bandel wrote: >I desperately need: >1. A way to turn OFF akonadi server for all users _without_ removing >kdepim. Removing akonadi wants to remove kdepim, but some teachers >are using kdepim and want to continue. Is there a master control? I >don't relish spending days logging into hundreds of students and >teachers accounts to turn akonadi off. kaddressbook, korganizer, and kpilot require akonadi-server to be installed. If you need any of these, you'll have to keep it installed (but hopefully, you'll be able to disable it, my advice doesn't directly address that). Instead of installing the kdepim "metapackage", you could just install the packages it will pull in, without those 3 apps. Mainly: akregator, kalarm, kandy, karm, kitchensync, kjots, kleopatra, kmail, kmailcvt, knode, knotes, kode, konsolekalendar, kontact, korn, ktnef, and networkstatus. (Or just the ones you use.) Even with all those installed, you should be able to avoid installing akonadi-server at all. KDE packages are fairly fine grained on Debian; you should be able to pick and choose exactly what you need. Use the curses interface of aptitude to determine exactly what Depends a meta-package has before installing it. >2. A way to remove all the My-not-really-SQL-SQL cruft (MySQL rant >deleted). KDE4 for some bizarre reason depends on MySQL. akonadi-server Depends on mysql-server. You can't remove mysql-server if akonadi-server is still installed. If you can successfully remove akonadi- server, you should be able to remove mysql-server -- no other package with "k" in the name Depends on it -- and all it's "cruft". >(Ser ver runs Debian Squeeze). My advice above is for Squeeze, it is almost certainly not applicable to non-Debian systems. You may which to engage debian-kde at lists.debian.org and kde-linux at kde.org instead of this list; either of those are more tightly focused on your issue. Both debian-kde and debian-user at lists.debian.org have had recent conversations about the "dependency" on MySQL; I haven't seen anyone that is particularly happy with it, but I also can't find anyone to either do or fund the work required to make Akonadi run on any other RDBMS (some would prefer no RBDMS) and still be easy to install for Debian desktop users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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