Bug: Korganizer does not start without mysqld which is not installed with it

[ghost]

I ran 'xbps-install korganizer' and said yes.
It gave me an error on start up about not connecting to the akonadi personal information service. I read around on the internet and quite a few users said to restart mysqld.
However, korganizer did not install it as a dependecy.
To get the program to work, I have to run xbps-install mysql, select yes then start mysqld as a service with
ln -s /etc/sv/mysqld /var/service/
and then it worked.
I am submitting this as a bug with the package, as mysql should probably be a dependency.

Let me know what you think,
Best,
David

[ghost]

Also, I am unsure if kdepim-runtime is installed by default with korganizer. I was having the same issue listed here and this fixed it: See
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/527179-Is-kOrganizer-ical-import-broken-in-42-3

[b1scu1t]

Korganizer works with either mysqld or sqlite3.
I don't believe having mysqld as hard dependency is a good idea.
Maybe a message should be displayed, alerting the user to install either one of the two?

[ghost]

Okay fair enough. I can say that installing the package for it off the bat did not work for me. Is sqlite3 installed by default on void such that it should work out of the box?

[sgn]

I think it would be simple enough to make Korganizer depends on sqlite?
A lot of users have one or more of those packages installed nss (via firefox, chromium), webkit2gtk, python3, mpd, gnupg2, and fwupd. Those packages all pulls sqlite in.

[ghost]

Does void not also come with python3 installed by default? It is interesting that I have python3 installed (python developer), yet Korganizer did not detect sqlite. I would assume I also have sqlite installed as well.

[b1scu1t]

You are correct. It seems that you must manually specify the database back-end in ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc.
It's set to 'QMYSQL' by default.
Check here for more info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#SQLite

Akonadi also supports PostgreSQL, apparently.

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