Akonadi and Nepomuk

[Maximilien Noal]

On 16/11/2012 19:04, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> Recently, when I was writing about my move to either Maya Xfce or
> Xubuntu, I asked about akonadi and nepomuk. I said that one main reason
> for the move was to get away from those packages. I was told that they
> are KDE packages and should not appear with Xfce.
>
> Well, I finally went for Mint Maya Xfce and it has gone very well.
> However, when checking just now I found that those packages seem to be
> installed. So it seems that Mint includes them with Xfce.
>

Aren't there some KDE apps installed ?

On Arch (I believe it's the same on *buntu), when I install k3b, it 
depends on kdebase-runtime, which depends on nepomuk-core. Even if 
nepomuk is nowhere to be found in memory even when k3b is running.

> So my questions are, is it safe to remove them? If not, how can I be
> sure that they are not running and wasting resources?
>
> I have checked via ps -e and I see that both akonadi_agent_1 and
> nepomukservices are listed but both with the time showing zero.
>
> As far as I can see I have no use for them at all.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
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