On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:29 +0300, Petr Ovtchenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 10:25:16 Thomas Trepl wrote: >> ... There >> are servers which adds another layer over other servers > (virtuoso->mysql), >> there are (if i understood that dependency right) systems talking via > ODBC(!) >> to each other, just to have a desktop. Its a fact that we need a > SQL-server >> for a *desktop* environment! > > Akonadi (i.e. PIM in KDE4) require MySQL. KMail's mails storage ported to > Akonadi > in KDE4.5...
What's wrong with maildir or mbox as mail storage formats? Aside from that, why a SQL database for emails? I can't see any relational data there at all. If it really must be in a SQL DB, then why not use an ORM to abstract away the details so that I can plug it into the RDBMS of my choice (I happen to use PostGreSQL for other things). I guess this is the wrong forum to be ranting in about this though, and as others have pointed out, walking away from the behemoth that is KDE now is an option open to anyone, like me, who's had enough of the bloat. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
