Philip Webb wrote:

> David Walser also commented helpfully:
> 
>>oooqs is already in contrib, you don't need to build it yourself
> 
> don't i have to join the Mandrake Club & pay some money for that?

No software in main or in contrib is restricted. See the recent article 
on Mandrakeforum on urpmi, I posted instructions on how to setup urpmi 
for contirb there.

And even RPMS requested on the Mandrake Club are free (as long as the 
original source is free enough, and after they've been through testing). 
See the unsupported/MandrakeCLUB section of the Mandrake-devel mirrors.

> 
>>>why do i have to install Mysql & Postgresql
>>
>>Because mysql and postgresql haven't been packaged correctly,
>>so to get the -devel stuff for those that qt-devel needs,
>>it needs the base packages too.

It may be that some aspects of development do need some of the files 
from the base package?

[bgmilne@bgmilne rpm]$ rpm -qR libqt3-devel|grep -i mysql
MySQL-devel
libmysqlclient.so.10
[bgmilne@bgmilne rpm]$ urpmq -p libmysqlclient.so.10
libmysql10
[bgmilne@bgmilne rpm]$ urpmq -p MySQL-devel
libmysql10-devel
[bgmilne@bgmilne rpm]$ rpm -qR libmysql10-devel
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
libmysql10 = 3.23.52
MySQL = 3.23.52-1mdk
MySQL-client = 3.23.52-1mdk
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
[bgmilne@bgmilne rpm]$

> 
> 
> is it Mandrake who haven't packaged it correctly or the M & S developers?
> 

Could be a packaging error (libmysql10-devel depending on MySQL), then 
again it may not be.

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