Re: akonadi

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>]

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Thank you Bruce.

I share the same view. After painfully trying kdepim I finally was
able to switch my workflow with Thunderbird. Then, for the web
browser, I have already switched to chromium/iceweasel.

On 08/27/2011 02:58 AM, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On August 26, 2011 10:30:22 AM Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> Are people here using akonadi or any of the tools using the
>> akonadi framework, in their regular workflow? (Email, PIM)
> 
> Maybe, but not because I want to... at this point I see my options
> for that box as: check if KDE-4 can be built without akonadi;
> Oldstable with KDE-3.5.10; Stable + Trinity's KDE-3.5.12; not-KDE
> 

As a packager, the kde team shouldn't disable that support.
As a user, I just realized yesterday that I should have used equivs
long back.

Even though I was using TB/Chromium combination for some time, the
stray akonadi processes were just a waste.


aptitude reports that kdepim-runtime is the only caller for
akonadi-server. So the dummy package here helps.

18:58:16 rrs@champaran:/tmp/Debian-Build/Result$ aptitude why
akonadi-server
i   kdepim-runtime Depends akonadi-server (>= 1.3)


I tried knocking this off too. But kdepim-runtime is required by many
more than just what is reported here.

18:58:25 rrs@champaran:/tmp/Debian-Build/Result$ aptitude why
kdepim-runtime
i   kbugbuster Depends kdepim-runtime


>> Also, the same with Nepomuk. Are people using it or is it just
>> sitting disabled in everyone's config?
> 
> Disabled as a service in itself, but it still gets started by
> akonadi.  :(
> 
> 
> AFAICT, ATM: I have no use for the nepomuk/strigi semantic desktop
> stuff; Akonadi is just simply overkill for me, and it doesn't help
> that the box I currently use for email can't afford the
> extra/unnecessary overhead (even if it didn't leave soprano and
> nepomuk processes lying around after a "ssh -X host kmail").
> 

Here's what I did.

14:07:13 rrs@champaran:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i akonadi
ii  akonadi-server                         1.5.3.1-1
      <short description; defaults to some wise words>
ii  kdepim-runtime                         4:4.4.11.1-2
      Runtime components for akonadi-kde
ii  libakonadi-kabc4                       4:4.6.5-1
      library for using the Akonadi PIM data server
ii  libakonadi-kcal4                       4:4.6.5-1
      library for using the Akonadi PIM data server
ii  libakonadi-kde4                        4:4.6.5-1
      library for using the Akonadi PIM data server
ii  libakonadi-kmime4                      4:4.6.5-1
      library for using the Akonadi PIM data server
rc  libakonadiprivate1                     1.4.0-0r2
      libraries for the Akonadi PIM storage service
ii  libakonadiprotocolinternals1           1.5.3-2
      libraries for the Akonadi PIM storage service
ii  libmicroblog4                          4:4.6.5-1
      library for using the Microblog Akonadi Resource


I was able to cut down akonadi installation by almost half. The
libraries couldn't be uninstalled because other kde4 components link
to it.

Create a dummy akonadi-server package with equivs with a version
number greater than the current one in our repository.

Once you do that, you can achieve this:

14:14:33 rrs@champaran:~$ ps aux | grep -i akona
rrs      20444  0.0  0.0   8516   880 pts/3    S+   14:16   0:00 grep
- --color=auto -i akona


Up till now, I have not seen any crashes because of akonadi missing,
so we should be good to use kde4 while still avoiding all of akonadi.


Hope that helps.


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