¡Hola Maximiliano! libkf5akonadisearch-plugins depends on libkf5akonadisearchcore5 which depends on libkf5akonadisearch-bin so they all will be added as soon as ~-plugins is a depend of kmail.
> At the same time it's a feature that consumes a great amount of > resources, particularly if you have GBs of Mails. Well this is what KDE is a about - semantic desktop funcionality. And the resources are needed once to make an index. After that it is much less, no? But however - in Akonadiconsole you can easily delete the akonadi_indexing_agent. If this is not working properly wouldn't the right way be to write a bug report for Akonadi-Console? And as I wrote - searching mails is not a nice-to-have sidefeature. Especially if you have GiB of Mails. If someone is changing to kmail, then it won't be because they search for something lightweight but for something which can cope with complex tasks and has many possibilities and is nicely integrated into their DesktopEnvironment. If there is an option in the menu, which is not greyed out, people expect it to function without hacking. This turns ot to be a nightmare: * At first you need to be sure that it is not due to some false preferences, so you need to look at every single menu item. = let's say 1 hour * Then, as your system is as complex as KDE is, you need to find out wether there is other software involved, so you need to have a look in the web. = let's say another 1 hour (usually much more) * In this search you found out there something like Baloo and Akonadi and they are both somehow connected to searching stuff etc. So you need to check wether they are working properly. = at least 2 hours (as you don't perfectly know for what to look) * Maybe then you will have found out there is something like the Akonadi Console although you are not perfectly sure wether this is the right thing plus there is a really nasty warning after you start it. Even then it is not really obvious that a package is missing. So you start writing a bug report checking old bugreports in the hope you'll find something. = another hour went And so on and so on and so on. In the end you spent at least one working day just to be able to get a common menu item working. In the IRC I met people who just used it without all the connected features since a year because they just weren't lucky enough to find out at all. But most people I know just stop using the software after step 1. Not because they are stupid but because they have to earn money and have to relax in their freetime to be able to earn money the next day. So please, please, please: Do not do this. That's unfair to a whole lot of people who are not as skilled as you in hacking. Just write a bug report for the akonadi console and remove the package for your own usecase. And add it as dependency. Thanks and warm greetings! Maria Maximiliano Curia: > ¡Hola Maria! > > El 2016-08-25 a las 19:11 +0200, Maria escribió: >> Package: kmail Version: 4:16.04.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #830563 > >> Without libkf5akonadisearch-plugins kmail is not able to search for >> Mails using "Tools-FindMessages...". > > You also need libkf5akonadisearch-bin, and the indexer needs to have > processed the folders you are searching on. > >> But thats a main feature regarding professional use of kmail which >> includes many folders and subfolders and several GiB of Mails. >> Additionally a Menu Item, which appears to be working and is not >> greyed out should definitely work by default and therefore ship the >> necessary libs without bothering the user. > > At the same time it's a feature that consumes a great amount of > resources, particularly if you have GBs of Mails. And removing the > indexer (libkf5akonadisearch-bin) is a straight forward way to disable > the feature. This might be a bit of nitpicking based on my personal use > case, it would be nice enough for me if the indexer can be disabled (for > good) from akonadiconsole, but so far the things that I tried bring it > back on the next session. > > I'm adding libkf5akonadisearch-plugins and libkf5akonadisearch-bin as a > recommends to libkf5akonadisearchpim5 for the next release. As a > compromise I'll also add libkf5akonadisearch-plugins as a dependency to > kmail. I'm still open to be proven wrong here (either by the need of the > indexer or about the way to disable the indexer without removing it). > > Happy hacking,
