On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Jan Staněk <jsta...@redhat.com> wrote: > However, as I have only very hazy ideas on how some of the dependent > packages are used or why they need libdb, I would like to ask for > cooperation, ideally from the package maintainers themselves. The > information on how to remove dependency, what would need to be done in > addition to removing the dependency, or why it is a bad idea to try > drop the dependency are all valuable.
I brought up the case of XEmacs in [1]. It can use any of BerkeleyDB, gdbm, or postgresql, but is currently configured to use BerkeleyDB. The conclusion of that thread was that, because BerkeleyDB is used in local-only mode (no server, no network involved), the new license would not be a problem. That's good, because switching database implementations at this point would be painful. References: [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/198525.html -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
