mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

[Brendan Jones]

On 01/05/2012 08:20 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> I'm of a mind to revisit this (again).
>
> NO, not again!!!
>
> Can we please stop this nonsense?
>
> Upstream defaults to MySQL for a reason, and strongly recommends NOT using
> the SQLite backend by default. SQLite doesn't support concurrency (i.e. any
> Akonadi operation blocks all others) and is slower.
>
> I think overriding the upstream default is a very bad idea in this case, and
> I'm surprised you are pushing for it that much, you're otherwise always the
> "upstream, upstream, upstream" guy.
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>

Can understand that this is a hot topic but ... Surely for a single user 
desktop you don't need a concurrent DB backend. If upstream recommends 
this then I would recommend upstream to reconsider their design.