Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

[Muzer <muzerakascooby@gmail.com>]

lee wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:23:35AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>   
> > In <[🔎] 20090526144742.GD5158@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote:
> >     
> > > Even if I wanted to run an RDBMS because it's needed for something I
> > > want, I'd think at least twice about it and look for another solution
> > > first to keep the resource usage low: There are some games I want to
> > > play, and I don't want to have to try stopping things that are running
> > > before I can play them smoothly.
> > >       
> > SQLite doesn't run a daemon at all.  While there is an binary that 
> > functional as a simple "SQL Shell", all the real RDBMS work is handled by 
> > the shared library.
> >     
>
> Still it wants to install the full mysql server --- and doesn't that
> package automatically start the server, even if it's then not used by
> kde? Not that I couldn't prevent that, but they could make a package
> that only installs the needed library instead of the full server ...
>   
Haven't tested it, but couldn't you do (for example):
aptitude install koffice sqlite

to make it use the other one?

Chances are both will satisfy the dependancy, just sql is listed before 
sqlite.
>   
> > Of course, there would still be the Akonadi server hanging around -- but it 
> > should only wake up "on demand" when applications need services.
> >     
>
> But does it take CPU time to figure out if it needs to wake up?
>
>
>   


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