Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> * James Troup (Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 07:47:21PM +0100)
> >
> > Blah. An even quicker ldd reveals this is already not the case.
> >
> > 20:45:26@hades| ~ $ldd /usr/bin/perl | grep gdbm
> > libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000)
> > 20:46:17@hades| ~ $
> >
> > Until _that_ changes, perl can't not Depend on gdbm.
>
> What's the greater evil? hAving the gdbm package and the dependency, or
> linking in libgdbm statically?
In theory, perl can be built entirely without gdbm support, and
libperl-gdbm made as separate package - with appropriate dependencies.
I imagine that this is the proposed solution.
Requiring gdbm is annoying, but doesn't sound release-critical to me.
Jules
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