On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Jyri Virkki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > > In my experience, a program often really needs postgres, MySQL, or > > Oracle specifically. > > Well, having functional dependencies doesn't force them to be used > inappropriately! > > If package foo depends specifically on Oracle, its dependency must > call that out. You'd only declare a general "database" dependency for > packages which work ok with any of them.
I guess I'm just pointing out that I have yet to see a program that can work with *any* database. That's why I've never liked "general" dependencies. Database probably isn't a great example though. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
