[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: dbconfig-common - short question

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:33:28PM -0500, sean finney wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:09:30PM +0100, Marcin Antczak wrote:
> > But I would like to make it very easy to end user. And I also would like to
> > make it installable 'from scratch'.
> > I mean for user that doesn't have mysql-server installed.
> 
> the easiest way to do that would be to have your package depend
> on the mysql-server... but i would strongly advise against it,
> and instead mention mysql-server as a Recommends or Suggests,
> and also say something in the Package description like:

Put mysql-server into Recommends: of "your-app-client".
Create a package "your-app-server". During installation of
your package "your-app-client" ask whether the user wants a
local server. If so, schedule an "apt-get your-app-server".
"your-app-server" should then bootstrap a local database.

Karsten
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