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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Build KMail only?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-07-12 11:21:10
Message-ID: 3850663.oTR1erc0pA () doriath
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On Tuesday, 12 de July de 2011 01:43:03 Rui Maciel wrote:
> It's clearly an overreaction.  This entire thread is about the negative 
> impact that the dependency on akonadi has on a very specific and 
> infrequent use of kmail.

You mean email is an infrequent use of KMail? What do you use KMail for if not 
for email?

> I believe that we all can agree at least  that 
> in this case, which is uncommon, akonadi does constitute a problem.  And 
> I also believe that we can all agree that akonadi was once added as one 
> of kmail's dependencies a while ago and since then it became 
> increasingly more dependent on it.  So, if we can agree that akonadi in 
> some cases happens to be something which is unpleasant and if we can 
> agree that it's hold on kmail grew over time, then why should we waste 
> our time whining about using the world cruft[1] to describe akonadi's 
> role in this specific case?  Are we that touchy regarding anything which 
> might remotely resemble some form of criticism?

No, we cannot agree on that.

Akonadi was created to handle all activities relating to PIM (Personal 
Information Management), including and most especially email. It's not that 
"once added [...] it became increasingly more dependent". That was the entire 
goal and design: make KMail's email support use Akonadi.

It only took time because email support was harder to achieve than storing the 
calendaring, contacts and tasks and to-dos. Moreover, email required the 
creation of the SMTP, IMAP and POP3 agents, replacing the ioslaves that 
KMail 1 used.

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