On 10/16/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6 40 > > Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are > the reasons, that we still carry around the older versions, like 4.2 and > 4.3? Is there software which doesn't build against newer versions, are > there other reasons? > Wouldn't it make sense to limit the number of bdb version in the archive > to two or max. three?
Interesting because I was wondering about the same thing, and even worse is that each of those takes way too many CPU cycles to build. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
