Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE/semantic-desktop

[Chris Reffett <creffett@gentoo.org>]

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On 08/08/2013 01:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Martin Vaeth 
> <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>> Sorry for reposting: Somehow the first line got lost making the
>> whole posting not understandable...
>> 
>> Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> answer is about 10 additional megs of ram at idle and about 2
>>> extra seconds to boot.
>> 
>> ..and two huge database servers which lots of disk and ram space
>> and a huge waste of compile time (not so much for KDE but more
>> for the databases), opening to all sort of possible attacks by
>> bugs in these databases whose servers need to be running etc.
>> 
> 
> Do those servers still run if you disable the features in the
> control panel?  I already run MySQL so the only annoyance for me
> was getting it to use the existing instance rather than spawning a
> new one.
> 
> If somebody is willing to join the KDE team to support keeping
> that option (even as a proxy maintainer) I think the team should
> work with them.  I think that we should generally offer any choice
> as long as somebody steps up to support it properly (and I do mean
> properly). While I'm sure the KDE team has their faults they do
> announce their meetings/etc and I suspect it would be an easy team
> for an outsider to get involved with as a result.
> 
> Rich
> 
Lies! Blatant lies! The KDE team has no faults! :)
...but seriously, if someone were willing to work with us and put in
the effort, I'm sure we could work something out. I'll skip the usual
part about explaining our motivations behind the original removal
since that's been discussed ad nauseam in bugs and on the -desktop list.

Chris Reffett
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