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Bug#535324: kaddressbook: I want an addressbook client, not a mysql server



On Monday, 2009-07-13, Simone Piccardi wrote:

> What I do not understand is why a client should be depend on the
> installation of the corresponding server. It seems to like requiring to
> install apache to run firefox.

Not quite, this is a different kind of server/client relation ship.
This is a session runtime service, more like D-Bus clients depending on D-Bus.
A part of the runtime infrastructure, essential functionality shared between 
applications through inter process communication.

> So I cannot understand why the dependency on the akonadi plugin is
> forced on all of us. It should be possible to put this in a separate
> package, avoiding it if the  user dos'nt need that.

Not sure what the rational was given that it is a plugin not enabled by 
default, but you could try asking for a change from "depends" to "recommends".

Cheers,
Kevin

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