Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed:
> version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6 40 > Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are > the reasons, that we still carry around the older versions, like 4.2 and > 4.3? Is there software which doesn't build against newer versions, are > there other reasons? BerkeleyDB 4.2 is still faster and more stable than any subsequent version for OpenLDAP, although 4.6 is looking promising. I don't have any good explanation for 4.3 through 4.5, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
