Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 23:05:34 +0000 on Thursday, March 10, 2011: > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 16:32 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Debian does have one potentially MAJOR downside -- that is that since > > dpkg (and hence also apt) makes it hard to override package > > dependencies, you are stuck with all the other packages that the > > Debian BackupPC package draws in, including apache. > > You may misunderstand the way package dependencies work with APT. Nope > > The BackupPC package depends on (among other things): apache2 | httpd. > All other HTTP servers provide "httpd". Which means if you just install > BackupPC, you get sane default software (apache). But if you want to run > nginx or lighttpd or anything else, you can. Just choose to install it > before, or with, BackupPC. >
Except sometimes you want BackupPC without *any* HTTP server which is also a valid BackupPC configuration. cgi is a BackupPC option, not a requirement, but dpkg/apt will mess up since it requires httpd... which of course was my original point ;) In general, I find dpkg to be less flexible than rpm mostly for reasons like the above. Sometimes 'dpkg' tries to be too smart (I have similar problems when I try to override releases)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
