On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:11 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > > Is there an easy way around it? An end-user desktop environment > > requires a full-blown local database to be setup and run. Wow, I > > didn't know that so many users are professional database admins > > and know what to do. No KDE without MySQL. > > You don't have to configure anything, Akonadi starts a per-user instance of > mysqld automatically. But it needs the mysql-server package for that > purpose. > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Do_I_need_a_running_MySQL_server.3F > > > Is this MySQL dependency by intention? Couldn't find anything > > helpful on this or on the devel mailing list, although this is > > a big issue, IMHO. > > Yes, this is by (upstream's) intention, we have no other choice. > > FYI, Akonadi can also be configured to use a central MySQL server somewhere, > but this is not the default configuration and as you say we definitely > cannot expect our users to be database admins, so we have to make the > default configuration work, thus the hard dependency on mysql-server. > (Unfortunately, RPM still does not support soft dependencies.) ---- and apparently a real problem for people like me who use NFS for home directories Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
