On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:02:55AM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
Le lundi 06 septembre 2010 à 12:07 +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) a écrit :>> On the other hand, why cannot sympa depend on all the libdbd-*-perl > packages? If I select postgres I should have it installed, but not > necessarily the libdbd-*perl package. All of them should be at > least a suggestion if not a recommendation or dependency of sympa.>In general, package dependencies should be reduced to the minimum required. This saves diskspace, download time and makes your system more maintainable.Why not provide some "sympa-mysql" or "sympa-postgresql" pseudo packages to implement such dependencies and necessary scripting in addition to sympa ?
Pleas comment my proposal posted here earlier.If your proposal is somehow different, please elaborate, so we can better compare them.
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