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 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
