On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > I'm packaging a database wrapper library (http://oss.devit.com/yada/). > Its purpose is to provide one single API to a program and let the user > configure if the database used is actually postgres/mysql/sqlite. The > actual interfacing with the databases is done by .so plugins that are > dlopened at run time.
> Currently my package will depend on all of the database libs: > | Depends: [...], libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2), libpq4 (>= 8.1.4), > libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.3.8) > This kind of defeats the purpose of the package, the program(mer) uses > this library in order not to pull in any (or even all) specific > databases. > Is it in this case ok if I replace ',' by '|' there? This would allow > the user to really choose what database backend he wants. > 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. The alternative alternative solution is to reimplement libyada as a shim around ODBC. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
