On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:03:15AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 03:59:14PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:20:28AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Well, if doesn't *directly* depend on X :-) In fact: > > > > > > Depends: libpcre-ocaml, ocaml-base-3.07 > > > > > > As for libdbi-ocaml-dev, perhaps that is where this is coming from; your > > > complaint perhaps rests with one of the database libraries: > > > > > > Depends: libdbi-ocaml (= 0.9.3.cvs.55-2), libpcre-ocaml-dev, > > > ocaml-findlib, ocaml-3.07, libperl4caml-ocaml-dev (>= 0.3.7-1), > > > libpgsql-ocaml-dev (>= 20040120-2), libmysql-ocaml-dev (>= 1.0.3-1), > > > libocamlodbc-ocaml-dev (>= 2.7-1), libsqlite-ocaml-dev > > > > Well, I guess that's probably right! > > > > But can libdbi-ocaml be changed so that it doesn't depend on the > > database libraries directly (but 'suggests' them)? It ought to still > > work, surely, unless you actually tried to use dbi_xxx in which case > > it should correctly give an error. > > That's already how it works. I think you may be confusing libdbi-ocaml > with libdbi-ocaml-dev.
Ah yes, probably. Unfortunately on my webserver I need both of these packages, because we compile all our CGI scripts on the server rather than distributing binaries. Why does the -dev package require these extra packages? Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment 'There is a joke about American engineers and French engineers. The American team brings a prototype to the French team. The French team's response is: "Well, it works fine in practice; but how will it hold up in theory?"'
