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 <j...@gentoo.org> > 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 Therefore, I think that the nepomuk USE flag is no longer valid, 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
