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On Saturday 22 Aug 2015 14:13:46 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 22 August 2015 12:37:01 Mick wrote: |
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> > There was an e-news item: |
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> > 2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal |
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> Oo-er. Eselect news list here shows all news items as having been removed. |
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> I haven't seen that before - I'd better look into it. I did notice a batch |
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> of news files going by during a recent sync though, so perhaps this is |
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> another symptom of the gentoo sync mechanism. |
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This is what it contains: |
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2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal |
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Title Nepomuk removal |
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Author Johannes Huber <johu@g.o> |
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Posted 2015-08-11 |
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Revision 1 |
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With KDE SC 4.13.0 release the default semantic desktop search engine |
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switched from Nepomuk to Baloo.[1] This change was honoured in Gentoo |
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by changing the semantic-desktop use flag to cover the new engine and |
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moving the old to nepomuk use flag. |
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The underlaying storage backend for Nepomuk aka Virtuoso DB has a lot |
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of unsolved upstream issues[2], therefore we will remove it. This means |
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packages with build options on the old stack will drop them. Other |
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packages which hard requiring it will be removed. |
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If you are still using Nepomuk you can switch to Baloo by globally |
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enable semantic-desktop and disabling nepomuk use flag in |
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/etc/portage/make.conf or using one of the kde desktop profiles. |
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[1] https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.13/ |
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[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=virtuoso |
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> > Therefore, I think that the nepomuk USE flag is no longer valid, although |
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> > semantic-desktop is still being used. KDEPIM needs the semantic-desktop |
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> > USE flag, or it won't work fully. |
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> As long as you only want the KMail component of KDEPim you can get away |
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> without semantic-desktop. So far. :-) |
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I think that migration of data will fail, address book searches won't work, |
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etc. I haven't looked into it at any depth TBH, but enabled USE="nepomuk |
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semantic-desktop" as it was back then for this reason. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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