Andy Smith (HE12025-07-27): > 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.
Vim has the ability to use Gtk+3, but when you install vim, you do not see apt trying to pull Gtk+3 too: Debian builds several variants of the package with various options enabled or disabled. The same thing would be possible here: apt-get install kea-tiny apt-get install kea-full > 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. Run-time plugins are work. Build-time optional features are a lot less work. > I'll have to look in to whether it has all the features I need, but it > is a good suggestion, thanks. Please share your conclusions. Regards, -- Nicolas George
