On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 02:27:54PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote: > > Not only does it solve the "problem" in that area, but it would solve it > > BETTER than how debian 'solves' it. > > ...except for the hole that is: none of those packages depend on the > actual db package, so removing it wouldn't generate any warnings > (unless some other package marked it explicitly). Would the > CSWdbwrapper depend on both? With debian, removing the package > providing the 'generic' rdbms would alert you to the dependency > breakage. >
I doubt that debian does it any better. For example, lets say that you were installing... [foo], which depended on "mysql|postgres", and you had BOTH installed. You chose to install it using mysql. Then later, you choose to remove mysql, but postgres is still there. does apt-get/aptitude somehow register that you chose mysql specifically for package [foo], and complains about the removal? I am scheptical about this. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
