On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:15:09PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>> So why doesn't anything have an ELF dependency on the libraries provided
>> by SUNWapu13-ldap?  If the library is dlopen()ed explicitly, then it
>> should be checking for failure.  Is this just a workaround for an Apache
>> bug?
>
> I believe it is - if LDAP is enabled in the Apache configuration, the
> server will crash because it doesn't gracefully handle the lack of
> SUNWapu13-ldap.  Which is different then the database case - see below.
>
>> I definitely object to Apache now bringing in mysql, postgres, and sqlite.
>> If there are Apache modules that require these, that's fine, but they
>> should be in separate packages.
>
> Understood, I had similar concerns - the intent here was to provide a
> better user experience for the common Apache case but if these aren't
> included, then unlike the LDAP case, Apache will provide a reasonable
> error message indicating the missing library in question.
>
> The webstack team has indicated they want to do some refactoring here
> in the future so how about we leave this as originally proposed for
> now; just include the dependency on SUNWapu13-ldap - and the remainder
> can be figured out as part of the larger refactoring effort.
> SUNWapu13-ldap itself has no further dependencies.

Okay, I can live with that.

Thanks,
Danek
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