Re: libdbi-ocaml depends on X, other things
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:20:28AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:01:11PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > I've just installed libdbi-ocaml to replace my homegrown packages. I
> > think because of the odbc dependencies, it depends on large chunks of
> > X. This was what it installed:
>
> Well, if doesn't *directly* depend on X :-) In fact:
>
> Depends: libpcre-ocaml, ocaml-base-3.07
>
> As for libdbi-ocaml-dev, perhaps that is where this is coming from; your
> complaint perhaps rests with one of the database libraries:
>
> Depends: libdbi-ocaml (= 0.9.3.cvs.55-2), libpcre-ocaml-dev,
> ocaml-findlib, ocaml-3.07, libperl4caml-ocaml-dev (>= 0.3.7-1),
> libpgsql-ocaml-dev (>= 20040120-2), libmysql-ocaml-dev (>= 1.0.3-1),
> libocamlodbc-ocaml-dev (>= 2.7-1), libsqlite-ocaml-dev
Well, I guess that's probably right!
But can libdbi-ocaml be changed so that it doesn't depend on the
database libraries directly (but 'suggests' them)? It ought to still
work, surely, unless you actually tried to use dbi_xxx in which case
it should correctly give an error.
Rich.
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