On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:19, Matthew Burgess <matt...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:29 +0300, Petr Ovtchenkov <p...@void- > ptr.info> wrote: >> On Wednesday 10 March 2010 10:25:16 Thomas Trepl wrote: >>> ... There >>> are servers which adds another layer over other servers >> (virtuoso->mysql), >>> there are (if i understood that dependency right) systems talking >>> via >> ODBC(!) >>> to each other, just to have a desktop. Its a fact that we need a >> SQL-server >>> for a *desktop* environment! >> >> Akonadi (i.e. PIM in KDE4) require MySQL. KMail's mails storage >> ported to >> Akonadi >> in KDE4.5... > > What's wrong with maildir or mbox as mail storage formats? Aside > from that, > why a SQL database for emails? I can't see any relational data > there at all. > > If it really must be in a SQL DB, then why not use an ORM to > abstract away > the details so that I can plug it into the RDBMS of my choice (I > happen to > use PostGreSQL for other things). > > I guess this is the wrong forum to be ranting in about this though, > and as > others have pointed out, walking away from the behemoth that is KDE > now is > an option open to anyone, like me, who's had enough of the bloat. > > That's probably a good idea, in the end. Let's just keep kde3. The farthest I go for databases in kde is sqlite. -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever tried Linux? :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
