FS#2437 - Don't depend on MYSQL for Amarok

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Francisco (espectro) - Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 00:15 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 02:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Damir Perisa (damir.perisa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Arch developers keep adding weird dependencies to the packages.

First it was Xfree as a dependency to samba, then openldap to samba too (not even openldap-client, but server too), with the 1.2 release of amarok now you require to install a full blown database (mysql) while it also uses sqllite.

Please, guys, keep dependencies sane. Please remove mysql from amarok's dependencies. Arch is really fast, and adding unneeded dependencies wastes hard disk space, and linking to non-standard features (like needing openldap with samba) makes the code bigger.

Thanks
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Closed by  Damir Perisa (damir.perisa)
Friday, 01 April 2005, 07:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 09:42 GMT
[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ ldd /opt/kde/bin/amarokapp | grep sql
libmysqlclient.so.14 => /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14 (0xb6424000)

amarok is built with mysql support, so that it can handle large collections of music
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 18:50 GMT
Re-opened by request from Francisco.
Comment by Łukasz Fibinger (lucke) - Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 21:11 GMT
Yep, I wasn't very fond either when Damir recompiled amarok with mysql support. I do have quite a big collection of music and I don't see any speed issues with it while using sqlite. If anyone really wants to use amarok with mysql, that's what srcpac was created for, wasn't it? :-) More or less, I opt for removing mysql dependency, as it's a redundant overkill, imho. Unfortunately, with current non-modular structure of all this software out there we can't satisfy everyone's needs :-(
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 22:03 GMT
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=11017

go voting!
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Friday, 01 April 2005, 07:32 GMT
amarok-mysqlfree exist in extra

when mysql-support becomes modular, support will be available in amarok-mysql

closing ...

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