Re: ITP: Slash, Sourceforge (fwd)

[Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:26:38AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> The only problem I see with both these sites, is they depend on MySQL
> databases.  How should I handle this?  I'm thinking create the database in
> the postinst and remove it in the postrm if purge is selected.  However
> where should it go in the filesystem?  What if the user wants it somewhere
> else?  How about if they want it ona seperate server altogether?  Do we
> have any policy/prior art on these issues?

Just make sure that they only go into contrib, then, unless somebody
packages the free version of MySQL.

    Gregor