Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2013, 08:21:47 schrieb Duncan:
> ...
> 
> [Those uninterested in gentoo/kde can stop reading here, as the rest of
> the post is a complaint about that project not taking the same position.]
> 
> Gentoo/kde users would be so lucky!
> 
> As a gentoo/kde-er, I *WISH* the gentoo/kde team was as similarly willing
> to continue support for the options kde upstream *ARE* still providing --
> kde4 with the semantic-desktop options turned off.  

Let me quote a user comment from my blog [who was in the beginning very much 
concerned about this decision as well]:

"I decided it might be wise to rebuild +semantic-desktop globally, to see for 
myself what would actually happen. After 8 hours of compiling (Atom N270) the 
answer is about 10 additional megs of ram at idle and about 2 extra seconds to 
boot. There is no performance penalty to load gwenview or dolphin. kdelibs 
took an additional 10 minutes to compile (2h 15 vs 2h 5); the flag system wide 
should not increase my compile times by more than a percentage point or two. 
Given that the hit is extremely minimal: I do apologise for getting 
prematurely butthurt, and I welcome our new semantic overlords."

It's simply a matter of priorities. If the resulting damage is that minimal, 
it is not worth the effort.

(I mean, it's not as if you'd have to switch to a totally different init 
system or such. :)

-- 
Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde)
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/