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 79CF8138CD0 for ; Sat, 30 May 2015 09:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D814E0928; Sat, 30 May 2015 09:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01c.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01c.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A601E08FE for ; Sat, 30 May 2015 09:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01c.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YydPP-0005yR-4h for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 May 2015 09:50:27 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe. Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 10:50:26 +0100 Message-ID: <8959000.32CSAd51Ac@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.18.12-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <55696C73.1070607@gmail.com> References: <2988031.1MpZN5Nf01@wstn> <201505291654.36290.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <55696C73.1070607@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01c-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 9671cb45-1a20-47c0-afc3-125a6b9ff7fc X-Archives-Hash: 430b31e3a550df564c005684ee101bd1 On Saturday 30 May 2015 09:53:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Akonadi was supposed to be a once-size-fits-all central store of all pim > info (contacts, addresses, mails and all metadata about that) which any > and all apps could use. > > The vision was that an enormous awesome ecosystem all buying into the > OneGrandVision(tm) would spontaneously spring up, thereby validating the > existence of akonadi itself due to a magic self-fulfilling prophecy. > This did not happen. Nor will it. It's long since time they had another think. -- Rgds Peter