Am Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:20 schrieb Reinhard Max: > Hi, > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 15:05, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > imho we have way to many of those "fat pull in all dependencies" > > packages. > > True, that's why I am skipping the dependencies in this special case. > > > what happens in your jabber package if the required library for a > > plugin isnt found? > > You get an error message saying exactly that. > > I think that's acceptable, because you have to go through a number of > config files when setting up jabberd anyways, and when you decide to > use database X as your storage backend you most probably have the > respective library package installed already, because for most > databases you also need the command line client (which in turn depends > on the library) to initialize the database before jabberd can use > them.
It is anyway not really good, when jabberd is the only exception where the user has to manually find that out while all other packages are package in a different way, where this is not needed. Consistens is also a feature of a distribution ... -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
