amarok on ubuntu hardy takes 15 minutes to startup

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:52:58AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> I try to avoid MySQL simply because I'm already running too many rDBs (most
> of my current work is PostGres, and I still need to occasionally start up
> Oracle - and _that's_ a resource hog), but it's installed because Amarok's
> dependencies are imo broken, and every now & then I see it's running and I
> have no indication that it's actually consuming resources.

    Don't worry, MySQL is soon going to be standard fare.  KDE 4.x, which
includes some "addressbook" API which is supposed to unify things for all
applications, is based on MySQL.  So any app which relies on that API (which
is, yeah, lots of things from 4.1 and up) require MySQL to be installed.

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