Re: Upgrading libdbi-ocaml-dev in unstable brings in lots and lots of packages ...
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:43:12PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:20:49PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, the correct way would be to either reduce the dependencies of
> > libmysql-ocaml[-dev] or even reduce the dependencies of the mysql stuff
> > itself, or split it in a nox package or something.
>
> It sounds to me as if there are two 'correct' approaches (not that I'm
> an expert on Debian policy or anything ...):
>
> (1) Use Suggests instead of Depends.
>
> (2) Split up the libdbi-ocaml-dev package into a main package and a bunch
> of packages containing each dbi_*.{cmo,mli} pair.
2) sounds interesting, and maybe they could even provide a virtual dbi-driver
or something such package. That said, what i was meaning, is that there is no
real reason the part of mysql we are depending upon should need X. So the
mysql dbi_* driver should depend on the part of mysql which is both enough to
make it work, but small enough not to pull in the whole of X. If such a
package is not yet existing, then it has to be split or something, but this is
too late for sarge.
The same going for the other driver packages.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Reply to: