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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nextcloud or owncloud and qt5 or rclone
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:51:16
Message-Id: 20230126225059.78c4c831@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nextcloud or owncloud and qt5 or rclone by hitachi303
1 On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:18:44 +0100, hitachi303 wrote:
2
3 > so until now I am running my box without qt5. Compiling takes so long.
4 >
5 > But I am missing a client for owncloud or nextcloud. So I see
6 > nextcloud-cliend does not run without qt5. It does not need webengine
7 > but still. So I see as alternativ there is rclone. From the size of the
8 > download it seems to be even bigger.
9
10 The download size isn't really relevant, it's the amount of dependencies.
11 rclone uses Go AFAIR, so that's a lot less to build than Qt5.
12
13 > Does anyone have experience with rclone?
14
15 I use it regularly, although not with NextCloud (I use the Qt client for
16 that as I run KDE). It's basically rsync for cloud providers and should
17 work well with NextCloud, although you won't get the automatic syncing of
18 changes that you get with the client
19
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21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
23
24 If it isn't broken, I can fix it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] nextcloud or owncloud and qt5 or rclone David Rosenbaum <rosenbaumd181@×××××.com>