I've heard that the reason the shipped Postfix RPM does not support Mysql is to avoid requiring people to install Mysql in order to use Postfix. However, use of Mysql with Postfix is very useful for larger sites. How about splitting the Mysql RPM into a mysql RPM which would contain the database, and a mysql-client or mysql-libs RPM that would contain the client access library? That way Postfix could be compile with Mysql support, and it would only require the small Mysql client library as a dependency, rather than a full Mysql installation? OpenLDAP is already packaged this way, which is presumably why the shipped Postfix RPM does include LDAP support. If the powers that be find this idea acceptable, I'm willing to take a crack at modifying the Mysql spec file to do this, since it would save me rebuilding Postfix RPMs every time there's a new Fedora release or Postfix update. Eric Smith
