Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 22 August 2015 14:48:18 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 22 Aug 2015 14:13:46 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 August 2015 12:37:01 Mick wrote:
> > > There was an e-news item:
> > >
> > > 2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal
> >
> > Oo-er. Eselect news list here shows all news items as having been removed.
> > I haven't seen that before - I'd better look into it. I did notice a batch
> > of news files going by during a recent sync though, so perhaps this is
> > another symptom of the gentoo sync mechanism.
>
> This is what it contains:
> ========================
> 2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal
>   Title                     Nepomuk removal
>   Author                    Johannes Huber <johu@g.o>
>   Posted                    2015-08-11
>   Revision                  1
>
> With KDE SC 4.13.0 release the default semantic desktop search engine
> switched from Nepomuk to Baloo.[1] This change was honoured in Gentoo
> by changing the semantic-desktop use flag to cover the new engine and
> moving the old to nepomuk use flag.
>
> The underlaying storage backend for Nepomuk aka Virtuoso DB has a lot
> of unsolved upstream issues[2], therefore we will remove it. This means
> packages with build options on the old stack will drop them. Other
> packages which hard requiring it will be removed.
>
> If you are still using Nepomuk you can switch to Baloo by globally
> enable semantic-desktop and disabling nepomuk use flag in
> /etc/portage/make.conf or using one of the kde desktop profiles.
>
> [1] https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.13/
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=virtuoso
>
> ========================
>
> > > Therefore, I think that the nepomuk USE flag is no longer valid,
> > > although
> > > semantic-desktop is still being used.  KDEPIM needs the semantic-desktop
> > > USE flag, or it won't work fully.
> >
> > As long as you only want the KMail component of KDEPim you can get away
> > without semantic-desktop. So far.   :-)
>
> I think that migration of data will fail, address book searches won't work,
> etc.  I haven't looked into it at any depth TBH, but enabled USE="nepomuk
> semantic-desktop" as it was back then for this reason.

All right, thanks. Also for the copy of the news item.

-- 
Rgds
Peter