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diff --git a/metadata/news/2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal/2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal.en.txt b/metadata/news/2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal/2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..488c980fbed5 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal/2015-08-11-nepomuk-removal.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Title: Nepomuk removal +Author: Johannes Huber <johu@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2015-08-11 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-db/virtuoso-server + +With KDE SC 4.13.0 release the default semantic desktop search engine +switched from Nepomuk to Baloo.[1] This change was honoured in Gentoo +by changing the semantic-desktop use flag to cover the new engine and +moving the old to nepomuk use flag. + +The underlaying storage backend for Nepomuk aka Virtuoso DB has a lot +of unsolved upstream issues[2], therefore we will remove it. This means +packages with build options on the old stack will drop them. Other +packages which hard requiring it will be removed. + +If you are still using Nepomuk you can switch to Baloo by globally +enable semantic-desktop and disabling nepomuk use flag in +/etc/portage/make.conf or using one of the kde desktop profiles. + +[1] https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.13/ +[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=virtuoso |