Hi, On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:28:36PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (HE12025-07-27): > > How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make the > > move at some point. > > Speaking for myself (but agreeing with a few friends), I say I do not > want tu run this monster: > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > ca-certificates kea-common kea-dhcp4-server libldap-common libldap2 > liblog4cplus-2.0.5t64 libmariadb3 libpq5 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules > libsasl2-modules-db mariadb-common mysql-common openssl > 0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 7544 kB of archives. > After this operation, 27.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
If it has the ability to use MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and LDAP then I don't see how in Debian it can avoid depending upon their libraries. Maybe it could be better to have a plugin architecture and separately package each thing as a plugin, e.g. a hypothetical kea-ldpa-backend that depends upon libldap2 etc., but there are reasons why some developers don't like plugins so I'm not that surprised. > Especially when this is available: > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > busybox udhcpd I'll have to look in to whether it has all the features I need, but it is a good suggestion, thanks. Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
