On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 05:16 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
> I was put off by the fact that Evolution, NSS, and many other projects
> have Berkeley DB as part of their source rather than depending on it as
> a library.
> 
> Anyone with inside know if this is due to incompatibilities between
> versions or other instabilities?

As Andrew says, that is due to legacy.  EDS will use a system Berkeley
DB if you use --with-libdb=[prefix], and as far as I know Debian/Ubuntu
on the desktop do this, and Maemo/OE derivatives do this on the handheld
without any problems.

Ross
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