[gentoo-amd64] Re: Failures on updating KDE to 4.4.1 - unable to update kmail

[Duncan]

Paul Stear posted on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:14:10 +0100 as excerpted:

> Thanks Duncan, I hope you do not have problems but can still help me.

FWIW, I'm upgrading in the background right now.  I'm doing it twice, 
~amd64 on my main machine, and ~x86 on the image (on my main machine, but) 
for my netbook, some 270+ packages on each, including the non-kde ones (I 
don't run a full kde or it'd be more).

FWIW, there were some issues with mysql reported, tho they /should/ be 
fixed with the latest versions of everything.  That would affect akonadi/
kaddressbook/kmail, which I run, and amarok, which I dumped due to 
developers more interested in more features I didn't want (after removing 
several I used) than in the fact that they were breaking it for the amd64 
segment of their userbase, back when they switched to mysql-embedded.  

IMO, you'll be better off choosing a simpler music player, unless of 
course you actually /use/ all that database functionality, scoring, 
wikipedia artist lookup, etc, and value it above having a player that 
actually /works/ for playing /music/.  After a bit of research, I went 
with mpd and a few chosen front-ends, in part so I could have 
uninterrupted play when I wasn't running X and when I was, but there's all 
sorts of players for all sorts of styles.  And unless your style exactly 
matches the amarok one, it's very likely simply way too many complex 
dependencies to be worth running it.  But if amarok's your style, by all 
means, continue to use it!  It's just not mine and even when I was running 
it back in kde3, I found it rather bloated for my tastes.  But the switch 
to mysql-embedded was the last straw for me, so I switched, and am very 
glad I did. =:^)

More on the rest when I'm done with the upgrade...

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