Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> I'm packaging a database wrapper library (http://oss.devit.com/yada/).
> Its purpose is to provide one single API to a program and let the user
> configure if the database used is actually postgres/mysql/sqlite. The
> actual interfacing with the databases is done by .so plugins that are
> dlopened at run time.
> Currently my package will depend on all of the database libs:
> | Depends: [...], libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2), libpq4 (>= 8.1.4), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.3.8)
> This kind of defeats the purpose of the package, the program(mer) uses
> this library in order not to pull in any (or even all) specific
> databases.
> Is it in this case ok if I replace ',' by '|' there? This would allow
> the user to really choose what database backend he wants.
> The alternative solution would be to put the plugins into separate
> packages and then depend on libyada-mysql | libyada-postgres |
> libyada-sqlite. As these packages would merely contain a single file,
> that seems bloat to me.
The alternative alternative solution is to reimplement libyada as a shim
around ODBC.
;)
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