Drop PIM from the iso (default install)

[Rik Mills]

On 16/09/17 13:26, rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, September 16, 2017 01:00:10 AM Michael Devendra Lutynski wrote:
>> I personally use KMail all the time and love it, but I do have to agree
>> that the Akonadi + MySQL backend is a non-trivial addition of system
>> resources and complexity. Part of my custom install script is:
> 
> Hmm, as far as I know, at least for Debian Wheezy /  KDE 4.8.4, kmail (1.13.7) 
> doesn't required Akonadi.  It does seem to get installed, but the first thing I 
> do is disable it on a new install (which has been quite a while ago, now).
> 
> Am I confused, or did Akonadi become a requirement for later versions of 
> kmail?
> 

Yes it did. Kmail 2 from KDE SC 4.5.0 was a re-write/port to the akonadi
storage framework for all it's data, including email storage. Kmail
simply will not work without it since then.