On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: >> Hello list, >> when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs >> kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to not >> use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I will not >> install it. > > you don't even now what that is. Right? > > You just don't use 'it' and you are fine. Btw, I am sure you already have it > installed with soprano. >
My understanding is the semantic-desktop is just the latest incarnation of kde's clone of google desktop search which just wastes CPU, memory, and disk space. Personally I don't see the need for this technology as I'm perfectly happy waiting a few seconds on "find" every few months.
