[gentoo-amd64] Re: About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Florian Philipp posted on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:12:36 +0100 as excerpted:

>> However, kde4 uses a database for akonadi.  With older versions (thru
>> 4.3 at least), it was mysql by default.
> [...]
> 
> Same issue with Amarok.

Thanks for the reminder.  I'd forgotten about amarok, as I got disgusted 
with it awhile back, when they basically decided their amd64 users didn't 
matter (the embedded mysql lib they were using was broken on amd64, and it 
wasn't exactly an unknown break, either, they simply didn't care about 
such users enough to stop them from making it mandatory), and switched to 
something (mpd, with several front-ends, still less bloated than amarok) 
far less bloated and more in tune with my needs anyway.  Of course, it 
didn't help that they'd dumped most of the features I found likable in the 
kde3 version, only to add more bloat I found nothing but useless to the 
kde4 version, either, but it was the utter unconcern about their kde4 amd64 
users, when kde3 was already no longer supported by kde itself (and was on 
its way out for Gentoo) that was the last straw for me.

But yes, amarok requires mysql too, unfortunately.

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