Package: amarok Version: 1.4.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hello,
given MySQL AB's strange stances about commercial (non-)support for Debian and its actions surrounding SCO and Microsoft (for more information, see e.g. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8163/1090/), I was finally taking enough notice to start wondering what kind of "superfluous"/"unhealthy"/"unorthodox" dependencies my system on MySQL has: # dpkg -l|grep sql ii libhsqldb-java 1.8.0.7-1 Java SQL database engine ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.30-1 mysql database client library ii libsqlite3-0 3.3.8-1 SQLite 3 shared library ii mysql-common 5.0.30-1 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf) The extremely obvious next steps failed, unfortunately: # dpkg --purge mysql-common libmysqlclient15off dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libmysqlclient15off: amarok depends on libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2). kexi depends on libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2). dpkg: error processing libmysqlclient15off (--purge): dependency problems - not removing dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of mysql-common: libmysqlclient15off depends on mysql-common (>= 5.0.30-1). dpkg: error processing mysql-common (--purge): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: libmysqlclient15off mysql-common (dito for kexi, obviously) Would there be a way to make those libraries entirely optional and thusly usually invisible on the system? (runtime-loading via dlopen(), then Recommend or Suggest them) Sure would be nice to try to contain the damage done to the Linux community by the Microsoft/SCO/Novell debacle... And maybe even provide support for the very nice and powerful firebird DBMS, too? ;) And yes, this is a semi-serious bug report, I don't really expect too much to be done with it, submitting it to possibly spark some thoughts and just for the fun of it. Thanks a lot for all your incredible Debian maintenance work, Andreas Mohr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
