On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:57:21 -0500, Randy McMurchy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > So I don't have to try and scour through the archives, can someone help > me figure out why GDBM was added to chapter 6 of the book, yet BDB was > left in as well. Do we have packages in Chapter 6 that depend on both > being installed?
Hi Randy. GDBM was added to chapter 6 on the recommendation of the upstream Man-DB author, as it's their better-supported DB implementation. BDB was added ages ago when we moved to iproute2, whose arpd implementation links against BDB. Personally, I never use arpd, but I guess it's useful for some network-admin types. We could drop BDB and therefore lose arpd (potentially pointing folks at BLFS for BDB instructions), but I really don't care either way to be honest. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
