On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:15:47AM -0800, Sriram Natarajan wrote: > The only thing is for each extension, we need to deliver a 'usr' and 'root' > package. I guess, with IPS, we don't have that restriction. So, we want to > split our packages at the time of adopting IPS.
Ah, laziness. :) > At this point, we simply require couple hundred megs dependency but there > are no hard coded dependency on packages like Postgres or MySQL. Okay, that's another way of doing it. Dependencies whose presence is checked at runtime and whose absence is handled gracefully can be handled in this manner. You'll undoubtedly get bugs filed against the extensions because there are missing dependencies, but if you think that hassle is less than coming up with a couple of extra packages ... Danek
