[csw-maintainers] thoughts on a dependency

[Peter Bonivart]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Polling the audience here to see what others think.  I'm evaluating
> bacula for use here so I'm going to update the (really stale) version
> in our catalog.  Bacula requires mysql (or pg or sqlite) to run.  The
> old version used mysql and I see no reason to change that.  So, mysql
> is a dependency but mysql could be run on a separate host.  The old
> package didn't depend on CSWmysql.  Should the update?
>
> I'm leaning toward no (status quo) as there is still a pile of manual
> config to do with this thing anyway.  If things could be seamlessly
> added to mysql like in debian (with their magic accounts) I'd be
> tempted to make the dependency direct...
>
> Does anyone think otherwise?

I do a similar thing with MailScanner, it supports at least Sendmail,
Postfix and Exim as MTAs and even though I use Sendmail with it I
think a Postfix user would be annoyed if it tried to pull in Sendmail.
So I don't declare any MTA dependency at all.

/peter