---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gmu 2k6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 19, 2006 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Bug#383615: split out libaprutil1-dev sqlite, pgsql, ldap dependencies To: debian-apache@lists.debian.org
On 8/19/06, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* "gmu 2k6" | I would like some of the libaprutil1-dev dependencies to be split | out to additional packages ala php-mysql so that the following | dependencies are optional and only installed by those who need. Why? I'm not inclined to do it for just a few files; disk space is cheap and even more so on development systems.
it's not about disk space, it's about installing as few packages as possible to have a clean selection with a minimum of update needs/problems. if Debian is "the universal OS" then it should allow clean installs without falling back to apt-build. one of the major reasons I'm using Debian out of the binary distros is that it allows me to install a minimal system and let me decide which packages I want, most of the time. although we are much better than RPM based distros which don't seem to have a "Suggest" field some packages are not done right regarding the features one can to enable/disable during runtime. just take the libwxgtk packages which requires esound, this is only so because the packager did not split the package in -base, -sound, etc. the point here is that wxWindows is most likely used for the GUI abstraction and not for sound. insert `apt-cache depends xchm` here. I'm using libaprutil1-dev to build Subversion >=1.3.x/1.4(rc) and the dependency I saw with it is similar to installing some font or graphics libs which require the whole Xorg baselibs chain. I build Subversion, because Apache 2.2 is not in etch/sid yet and so it is built against APR 1.0.x right now my own -DLARGEFILE aka APR 1.2.x Subversion. btw, this does not mean I'm using mod_dav_svn, svnserve is all I need as of know. so what do you think? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]