On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:04:09PM +0400, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > On 13.09.2013 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote: > > On 13/09/2013 21:35, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > >> On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > >>>> Hi people, > >>>> > >>>> I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. > >>>> Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which > >>> > >>> No > >> > >> Pity. > >> > >>>> appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it > >>>> doesn't seem to help. > > While the USE flag has disappeared, you could try putting nepomuk and > > akonadi into your package.provided file. > > > >>>> My current KDE installation is quite happy without that stuff (which > >>>> also brings along tons of other crap). > >>> > >>> > >>> The KDE maintainers posted quite extensively about this some time back. > >> > >> Some time back I heard that KDE devs were striving to make KDE more > >> modular. > > KDE upstream is, yes, and how this will affect semantic-desktop remains > > to be seen. > > so there is hope? ;) > > >>> It is too hard to try and extract semantic-desktop out of the KDE build > >>> whilst not breaking everything else. What you now do is allow the stuff > >>> to be built, and disable the function in System Settings. > >> > >> Well why wasn't it too hard before? It's not quite obvious why one's got > >> to "extract" some additional functionality, as opposed to including it > >> when needed. A strange approach, all in all. > > The decision to remove the USE flag happened mostly because it maintain, > > and was in general not well supported anyway. > > > > There have been a number of proposals about the situation: do nothing, > > do a full revert, or implement some compromise. I would hope that we > > make a final decision about this before stabilising any 4.11 version. > > Clear, then I'll opt to wait for the stable 4.11. > > >> BTW, it seems that mysql is also a hard dependency for QT now. At least, > >> the average joe can't be scorned any more for not having a "server". Hey > >> to all localhost admins! :) > > That shouldn't be the case. The default akonadi backend is mysql, why > > could explain why it's being pulled in. > > Yes, really, I was mislead, it is qtsql which requires setting the mysql > flag, but I missed that it was due to akonadi.
IIRC you can substitute mysql with sqlite by changing useflags. mysql seems the be the default though... WKR Hinnerk
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