Sebastian Harl wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Stephan Maka wrote: > > Not sure I understand this scheme; you want to include the rrdtool > > plugin without a dependency on librrd? How is that supposed to work? > Yes and no. All plugins are (and have been since 4.2.0-1) included in > the same package without having a strict dependency (at a package level) > on their individual requirements. The daemon still works if any of those > requirements are missing and will report an error message (without > aborting) at startup. The same will now apply to rrdtool as well.
Okay, I understand your reasons. It would just be nice to say: on this host I additionally install collectd-rrdtool, it starts writing rrd files out of the box and the whole dependency mountain gets cleaned away if I change my mind and uninstall it. > > Other than that I agree with sensible defaults, ie. collectd shouldn't > > write to disk or send to the network by default. Maybe we can use the > > plugins-{available,enabled}/ scheme for all additional plugins like the > > apache2 package does. > I guess, you're talking about additional plugins provided by additional > packages, right? Exactly. _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd