On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:56:16AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > > Debian builds man-db with GDBM. The packager and the author of man-db is > the same person, so you can count this as a dev's preference.
There could be many reasons for his choice, one likely one could be it was easier to write it that way and add BDB support later. That makes me leery of assuming his preference, based only on how debian does it, is a valid concern for why LFS should do it. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
