Re: DPKG

[Stephen Pitts <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com>]

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 06:44:09PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Christian Lavoie wrote:
>   >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but 
>   >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like 
>   >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database? 
> 
> Because a database has to be set up, as well as taking a significant
> amount of space that simply isn't available on the installation floppies.
> 
> dselect/apt has to work as soon as the base system is installed.  If you 
> introduce a complex product like a RDBMS, there's just too much extra
> that can go wrong.
> 
> 
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> 
Good point. Another one is that many low-end machines don't have the horsepower or disk space to run dpkg/apt with an sql server. We need to keep Debian as lean & mean as possible.   
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