Hi, does anyone an idea how to solve situations like this in a "right way"? There is an application A and a library L and libL-plugin for app A. The user installs A and L and wants to use L features from A. Another user installs just A and is not interrested in L. Now if A would require or recommend libL-plugin, then installing A would automatically pull the (possibly big and unwanted) library L. Requiring or recommending libL-plugin in L would have the same problem.
To give a real example: A = unixODBC L = mysql-shared (or postgresql-libs) libL-plugin = MyODBC-unixODBC (or psqlODBC) Both unixODBC and mysql-shared can be used without each other, but the user somehow expects, that if he or she installs unixODBC and mysql-shared, it will simply work with each other. See this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144602 Other example is php5 and it's extensions (databases again for example), some multimedia players and codec libraries probably have a similar problem. Any ideas? -- Michal Marek SuSE CR --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
