On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: > On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs > >> kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to not > >> use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I will not > >> install it. > > > > you don't even now what that is. Right? > > > > You just don't use 'it' and you are fine. Btw, I am sure you already have > > it installed with soprano. > > My understanding is the semantic-desktop is just the latest incarnation of > kde's clone of google desktop search which just wastes CPU, memory, and > disk space. Personally I don't see the need for this technology as I'm > perfectly happy waiting a few seconds on "find" every few months.
your understanding is wrong. Completely wrong. Seriously it hurts. start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework) and then proceed with the links. google-desktop is something completley different (and something that can be replaced with find, locate and grep).