amarok on ubuntu hardy takes 15 minutes to startup

[Derek Broughton]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> 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.

That's nuts.  There's no conceivable reason they should rely on a _specific_
rDB.  I'm going to be some pissed if it doesn't support PostGres.
-- 
derek