From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967E81381F3 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 18:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FB57E0AFA; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 18:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEC07E0ACE for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 18:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [12.0.0.213] (unknown [152.179.157.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: creffett) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BD5B833EBC1 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 18:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5203E05A.5020604@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:15:54 -0400 From: Chris Reffett User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE/semantic-desktop References: <5202416C.5@gentoo.org> <201308080905.52472.dilfridge@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e725a2ed-305a-4a8e-90ca-23762785b97a X-Archives-Hash: 0f72fc87be9230e1449ec56cedae1d38 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/2013 01:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Martin Vaeth > wrote: >> Sorry for reposting: Somehow the first line got lost making the >> whole posting not understandable... >> >> Andreas K. Huettel 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iKYEARECAGYFAlID4FpfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEM2NzU5RjUyMDczREJDQkVDQTBDRkE1NERC Nzk1QThBNDI2MTgzNTQACgkQ23laikJhg1TlrQCfXM1Pmi1lwwBCsSEfwyC3E5MJ zQUAn2OZ8pvujwUnu+bLtCZ0e4lacuui =tus9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----