Re: apache-common requires mySQL?
Tom Allison writes:
> Can someone explain why Apache-Common requires MySQL to be installed?
It doesn't. It depends on libmysqlclient10, a mysql client library, and
it on mysql-common, a set of mysql files.
> This is really a bad direction to move in.
I don't want this stuff either, but it isn't as bad as all that. You are
not being required to install a database server, just a superfluous library
and a few unnecessary files.
> It's fundamentally flawed in the sense that you are now binding this
> specific database with apache.
No he isn't. The mysql stuff won't do anything but take up space on your
disk, and not much of that.
> If I am interested in using a different database (postgres) then I now
> have to contend with two databases being tied into the one application
> (front).
No you don't. You can just ignore the mysql stuff.
> That puts me at an increased risk of reliability in addition to the
> overhead of now supporting two databases, not one.
No it doesn't.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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