Hi Stephan, On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:20:59PM +0200, Stephan Maka wrote: > 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.
Hrm … the only way, I can think of, to implement that, would be to introduce a new binary package for each plugin (with external dependencies). See my previous E-mail, why I do not want to implement that. Any other ideas how to do that would be very appreciated. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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