On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:33:51PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Ok, so explain to me why we wasted a MB or two distributing srclib/apr/ > and srclib/apr-util/ when the result is;
That's not the result when you don't have apr/apu 1.x [x:<2] installed. apr and apr-util 1.2 are bundled for reasons of pragmatic convienence, recognising that the vast majority of people don't have these already. If apr 1.0 or 1.1 happen to be installed, I don't see why it's not reasonable to fail to configure. The administrator may intend to link against the system version, they may not want httpd having its own libapr. And they're the only people capable of making that decision and hence resolving the conflict. They can decide to install over their existing apr, or to install a new one just for httpd. I brought this exact issue up weeks ago, and it didn't go very far. I was originally -1, for the very same reasons you are, but having thought about it decided that yes, while the present system introduces some inconvienence for a small fraction of users, it doesn't try to second guess them either, and unbundling apr/apr-util would represent a huge inconvienence to a large fraction of users. -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
