[gentoo-user] Re: KDE: unwanted dependencies

[Michael Palimaka]

On 13/09/2013 21:35, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
> On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
>>> Hi people,
>>>
>>> I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1.
>>> Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which
>>
>> No
>
> Pity.
>
>>> appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it
>>> doesn't seem to help.
While the USE flag has disappeared, you could try putting nepomuk and 
akonadi into your package.provided file.

>>> My current KDE installation is quite happy without that stuff (which
>>> also brings along tons of other crap).
>>
>>
>> The KDE maintainers posted quite extensively about this some time back.
>
> Some time back I heard that KDE devs were striving to make KDE more
> modular.
KDE upstream is, yes, and how this will affect semantic-desktop remains 
to be seen.

>> It is too hard to try and extract semantic-desktop out of the KDE build
>> whilst not breaking everything else. What you now do is allow the stuff
>> to be built, and disable the function in System Settings.
>
> Well why wasn't it too hard before? It's not quite obvious why one's got
> to "extract" some additional functionality, as opposed to including it
> when needed. A strange approach, all in all.
The decision to remove the USE flag happened mostly because it maintain, 
and was in general not well supported anyway.

There have been a number of proposals about the situation: do nothing, 
do a full revert, or implement some compromise. I would hope that we 
make a final decision about this before stabilising any 4.11 version.

> BTW, it seems that mysql is also a hard dependency for QT now. At least,
> the average joe can't be scorned any more for not having a "server". Hey
> to all localhost admins! :)
That shouldn't be the case. The default akonadi backend is mysql, why 
could explain why it's being pulled in.