On Wednesday 27 November 2013 00:18:55 Flavio Stanchina wrote: [snip] > Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > akonadi-backend-mysql is the default backend, if you want to setup a > > postgresql or sqlite backend you need to manually change akonadi > > configuration to use that connection. > > Manually? Are you joking? This is KDE, not bash with more colors.
Please be respectful. Maxy knows what he's telling you. And no, we are not joking. You have to set it up manually. If you want to have any other option, please ask upstream to implement it by filling the appropriate bug report upstream. > > This is documented in: > > /usr/share/doc/akonadi-backend-sqlite/README.Debian.gz > > ...which says, among other things: > "Just install the backend package which is the most appropriate for your > setup [...]" Noted, will have to be fixed. > That's what I did. Again, if the MySQL backend is required for the package > to work, why isn't there a dependency? That's what the original bug report > was asking. Either Akonadi *needs* the MySQL backend, therefore a > dependency is required, or the fact that Akonadi won't start without the > MySQL backend is a bug that needs fixing. Just select the first available > backend and be done with it. By the way, if you just write: > > [%General] > Driver=foo > > ...into ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc, then the control panel will > start and let you set the configuration. It's funny that an invalid > configuration works better than a valid configuration without the backend. And then you are barking against the wrong people. Ask upstream to not set a default and show that same config option from the beginning. > Truth be told, the real question for me is that I don't want Akonadi on my > system, but it is a dependency of several core KDE packages (I didn't track > which ones exactly) so it can't be removed. I "solved" the problem by > dpkg-redirect'ing /usr/bin/akonadi* and /usr/lib/libakonadi > out of the way, so package dependencies are satisfied. The KDE session > starts without errors and every piece of KDE that I'm actually interested > in runs fine, so I guess Akonadi is not really required. I have no problem > if you won't fix the Akonadi package dependencies as I've now made sure it > won't affect me, but I'd really like if someone fixes the other KDE > packages' dependencies so I can remove Akonadi altogether. Sorry but that's not possible. Akonadi is needed by many parts and it's usage will probably continue to grow. We maintainers need to set up things as upstream wants. If you don't like that, ask upstream, not us. -- El tiempo es un buen maestro, solo que lamentablemente, asesina a todos sus discípulos. Curt Goetz. (1888-1960). Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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