On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:53:25AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >Then why do the dependencies require that a mysql server be installed? > > As I understand it: > Because the "embedded" MySQL server is very much still a server. You do > *not* have to start the daemon via the init script, and it doesn't listen on > public ports, but it needs all the server components.
So it's neither embedded, nor a server. That might make it difficult to use a central server for many users. Anyway, I don't like it. It's something hidden from the user instead of telling them about it. That's never a good idea. > >> These same issues can be hidden when using RDBMS backed, but the > >> translations are usually much faster. > > > >Both of these won't be human readable, plain text files. > > Actually, yes. KDE Configuration files are human-readable, plain-text > files. They aren't free-form prose. For the most part they follow the > ".desktop" file specification put together by XDG. If you have to make so many "translations" of a configuration file that nowadays' computers run into performance problems when doing so, I don't consider the file as a human readable configuration file anymore. > The application writers can abuse them to store binary data, but that's true > of any plain-text format. Yeah, that something is plain text doesn't mean that it is human readable. > >Try to read > >your current kde configuration in 35 years, or try to read your data > >from the the RDBMS you're currently using in 35 years. You'll find > >that it won't be easy. > > I hope so. I plan on using different, hopefully better, software by then. And what if you need the information stored in it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
