On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 06:44:09PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Christian Lavoie wrote: > >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but > >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like > >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database? > > Because a database has to be set up, as well as taking a significant > amount of space that simply isn't available on the installation floppies. > > dselect/apt has to work as soon as the base system is installed. If you > introduce a complex product like a RDBMS, there's just too much extra > that can go wrong. > > > -- > Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver > PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 > ======================================== > "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall > stand at the latter day upon the earth" > Job 19:25 > > Good point. Another one is that many low-end machines don't have the horsepower or disk space to run dpkg/apt with an sql server. We need to keep Debian as lean & mean as possible. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
