Paul Stear posted on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:14:10 +0100 as excerpted: > Thanks Duncan, I hope you do not have problems but can still help me.
FWIW, I'm upgrading in the background right now. I'm doing it twice, ~amd64 on my main machine, and ~x86 on the image (on my main machine, but) for my netbook, some 270+ packages on each, including the non-kde ones (I don't run a full kde or it'd be more). FWIW, there were some issues with mysql reported, tho they /should/ be fixed with the latest versions of everything. That would affect akonadi/ kaddressbook/kmail, which I run, and amarok, which I dumped due to developers more interested in more features I didn't want (after removing several I used) than in the fact that they were breaking it for the amd64 segment of their userbase, back when they switched to mysql-embedded. IMO, you'll be better off choosing a simpler music player, unless of course you actually /use/ all that database functionality, scoring, wikipedia artist lookup, etc, and value it above having a player that actually /works/ for playing /music/. After a bit of research, I went with mpd and a few chosen front-ends, in part so I could have uninterrupted play when I wasn't running X and when I was, but there's all sorts of players for all sorts of styles. And unless your style exactly matches the amarok one, it's very likely simply way too many complex dependencies to be worth running it. But if amarok's your style, by all means, continue to use it! It's just not mine and even when I was running it back in kde3, I found it rather bloated for my tastes. But the switch to mysql-embedded was the last straw for me, so I switched, and am very glad I did. =:^) More on the rest when I'm done with the upgrade... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
