On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:23:35AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090526144742.gd5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >Even if I wanted to run an RDBMS because it's needed for something I > >want, I'd think at least twice about it and look for another solution > >first to keep the resource usage low: There are some games I want to > >play, and I don't want to have to try stopping things that are running > >before I can play them smoothly. > > SQLite doesn't run a daemon at all. While there is an binary that > functional as a simple "SQL Shell", all the real RDBMS work is handled by > the shared library.
Still it wants to install the full mysql server --- and doesn't that package automatically start the server, even if it's then not used by kde? Not that I couldn't prevent that, but they could make a package that only installs the needed library instead of the full server ... > Of course, there would still be the Akonadi server hanging around -- but it > should only wake up "on demand" when applications need services. But does it take CPU time to figure out if it needs to wake up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org