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



On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:22:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> I agree with Boyd in his understanding of your post. What is the use of
> language if you say one thing that a reasonable person would understand
> but meant something completely different? If a reasonable receiver does
> not understand the message as intended, the communication was faulty.

Misunderstandings are always possible.

> > that I don't have the mysql server installed and that kde isn't
> > working anymore after the update.
> 
> What follows from Boyd's post is that mysql is not necessary for a
> working system and he disagrees with you that removal of mysql breaks
> KE. Proof: I have the new KDE working fine in Debian Testing even after
> having removed mysql server. So the fact is that mysql is not necessary
> for a working KDE unless you are using package which require it.

I haven't said that mysql is necessary for a working kde. What I have
said is that it doesn't work anymore after the last update during
which I refused to install a mysql server.

> Perhaps you should see what exactly is broken.

I already mentioned about 3 or 4 times in this thread that kdm, when
it tries to start, says that there is no greeting widget and that I
should check the configuration. I'm merely expecting it to work
because no packages are broken, no dependencies are unfulfilled, and I
didn't mess with kdm in any way. I'm also not very inclined to figure
out what the error message is supposed to tell me and how to fix it
because it's not that important that I'd want to spend hours on
that. Maybe it fixes itself after some updates.

> I tried to help in this thread by posting the log of packages that I
> removed while removing mysql. From your sole response to that post,
> I gather your kdm is not working.

Yes, kdm isn't working. I haven't tried to remove more packages
because it doesn't make sense to me to remove more packages when
something appears to be already missing.

> Try gdm instead, I use it without any problem.

Maybe it's working for you because you're using gdm and not kdm.

For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde
than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want
to have to use either of them.


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