Re: KISS

[Chris Leishman <masklin@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:38:47PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
<snip>
> 
> Putting ORBit and liborbit into the base system would not take much space.
> However, putting a database implementation (required only by the master
> configuration server) such as mysql and the appropriate access libraries
> into base would be heavy. Doesn't matter as much now though, since floppy
> install is becoming outmoded.

I don't know much about CORBA, but why would the db need to be in base.  Just
as long as it gets installed before any package that depends on it things will
be fine (ok - pre-depends on it).

Regards,

Chris


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