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Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2013, 08:21:47 schrieb Duncan: |
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> [Those uninterested in gentoo/kde can stop reading here, as the rest of |
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> the post is a complaint about that project not taking the same position.] |
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> Gentoo/kde users would be so lucky! |
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> As a gentoo/kde-er, I *WISH* the gentoo/kde team was as similarly willing |
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> to continue support for the options kde upstream *ARE* still providing -- |
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> kde4 with the semantic-desktop options turned off. |
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Let me quote a user comment from my blog [who was in the beginning very much |
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concerned about this decision as well]: |
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"I decided it might be wise to rebuild +semantic-desktop globally, to see for |
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myself what would actually happen. After 8 hours of compiling (Atom N270) the |
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answer is about 10 additional megs of ram at idle and about 2 extra seconds to |
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boot. There is no performance penalty to load gwenview or dolphin. kdelibs |
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took an additional 10 minutes to compile (2h 15 vs 2h 5); the flag system wide |
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should not increase my compile times by more than a percentage point or two. |
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Given that the hit is extremely minimal: I do apologise for getting |
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prematurely butthurt, and I welcome our new semantic overlords." |
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It's simply a matter of priorities. If the resulting damage is that minimal, |
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it is not worth the effort. |
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(I mean, it's not as if you'd have to switch to a totally different init |
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system or such. :) |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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