From: Tobias Weingartner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Monday, September 26, Szechuan Death wrote: > > Again, looking at the original post, the database seemed to me to be > > part and parcel of this, for efficiency reasons. As you might be > > aware, you can't have a dependency outside the src/ tree; you can't > > have an "OpenBAK" or whatever that pauses in the middle of make to > > say "This requires PostgreSQL from the ports tree, go install it > > and come back". Not gonna work. That compels the introduction of > > a database as well. > > I *dont* want a database in my backup scheme. At least not the type > you are thinking of. It has been my unfortunate experience that the > database will usually let me down at the worst of times. Sure, if you > need some indexes to search things faster, so be it, but be able to > search without them.
Better yet, how about "I don't want a database on my very-small-and-happy-to-keep-it-that-way operating system", anyway? Why in the living hell would a database be needed by default? Are there already not hundreds of operating systems and distributions out there that try to be the end all be all kitchen sink collection of software? Can you not just install something from the ports tree? A package? If you don't find what you want in ports, can you not create a port for it yourself and submit it? If not, then just deal with it. DS
