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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?
From:       Hendrik Sattler <debian () hendrik-sattler ! de>
Date:       2007-01-05 17:16:31
Message-ID: 200701051816.31789.debian () hendrik-sattler ! de
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Am Freitag 05 Januar 2007 17:37 schrieb Christoph Berg:
> The alternative solution would be to put the plugins into separate
> packages and then depend on libyada-mysql | libyada-postgres |
> libyada-sqlite. As these packages would merely contain a single file,
> that seems bloat to me.

Kind of the same as using ODBC, isn't it? Except that you ship the modules 
instead of the DB vendor.
The thought should not be how many files are in each package but what the 
average client saves by not pulling all dependency chains.

HS


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