Control: found -1 1:3.11.1-5 On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:46:15 -0500 Christopher Cashell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to request that the dependency on libmysqlclient10 be changed > to suggests or recommends. My experience is that most (all?) of the > mailutils applications/tools can be used without MySQL (or its client > library) being present, and many of us have no desire to have unecessery > (and unwanted) libraries installed.
On a quite bare-bones system, I wanted to install 'at' which then wanted to install MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL libraries. I noticed it before on other (bare-bones) systems, where I needed f.e. a (simple) MTA (for cron's local mail), which (quite understandably) depended on mailutils and that brought in those DB libraries. I understand that some people may want to have support for *a* database (thus and OR relation seems more appropriate), but most people don't need or want that. Can't the database support be split off into another package which mailutils then recommends (or suggests)? Diederik
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