on 10/29/2005 02:00 PM Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 09:16 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > >>Michael Peters wrote: >> >> >>>The MySQL dependency sounds to me like a packaging mistake, a bug should be filed IMHO. >> >>Nope, just that amarok is built with support for a mysql backend, and >>that support requires mysql. (And, AFAIK unfortunately, there's no easy >>way to separate it out for those who don't want it). > > > It is a desktop application. > MySQL is a server. > > I can understand some desktop applications greatly benefit from a > database, but that's what things like sqlite are for. An application > intended the desktop (imho) should not require a database server. > > If MySQL support can't be offered separately via a plugin, then my own > opinion is it should be left out. > > Does it require MySQL or just the libs? > If it just requires the libs, that's fine. > > //me checks via yum > > mysql i386 4.1.14-1.FC4.1 updates-released > 2.9 M > > Hm - > That looks like just the client and libs in one package - other mysql > packages: > > mysql > mysql-bench > mysql-debuginfo > mysql-devel > mysql-server > > It probably would be less confusing if the libs were packaged separately > from the client and named mysql-libs - but :shrug: > > It seems to only require the mysql package that contains the libs and > the client (and I'm guessing it only needs it for the libs) > > That's probably OK, it is not requiring the server. > > OK - so there isn't a problem then, I stand corrected. is all this suppose to mean that there is no way for amarok rpm without the mysql dependence to appear (just because there is nothing special about that dependency), and I just can go ahead and install whatever is available for now? -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta
