Bug#398634: [Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: Bug#398634: [phpgacl] alternative patch without hard dependencies on both db clients.

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, sean finney said:
> hej andreas,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 19:33 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> 
> > A slightly different way would be to:
> > - have dbconfig-common depend on "sqlite | mysql-client |
> > postgresql-client" to make sure atleast one of the supported clients is
> > always installed.
> 
> unfortunately, this won't work because some apps work only with mysql,
> others with mysql | pgsql, others sqlite only, thus it's possible that
> unless it specified its own dependencies, the app would be installed
> without any supported db clients installed. (phpmysqladmin on
> a system with dbconfig+sqlite already installed, for example)

It's a bit messy, but perhaps a way to make it work with the current
dependency limitations is to have helper packages (dbconfig-mysql, etc)
which depend on dbconfig-common and the appropriate client interface.  
phpmyadmin, e.g., could then depend on dbconfig-mysql, which pulls in
all the right stuff for it, and supplies mysql helper scripts.

Just a thought.
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