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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?
From:       Russ Allbery <rra () debian ! org>
Date:       2007-01-06 2:51:41
Message-ID: 873b6o3m0y.fsf () windlord ! stanford ! edu
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Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

This is what I'd do.  Yes, it's a bunch of extra packages, but it clearly
expresses the actual dependency structure, rather than an approximation of
it, and that's usually a good thing in the long run.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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