On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Jan Staněk <jstanek(a)redhat.com> wrote:
However, as I have only very hazy ideas on how some of the dependent
packages are used or why they need libdb, I would like to ask for
cooperation, ideally from the package maintainers themselves. The
information on how to remove dependency, what would need to be done in
addition to removing the dependency, or why it is a bad idea to try
drop the dependency are all valuable.
I brought up the case of XEmacs in [1]. It can use any of BerkeleyDB,
gdbm, or postgresql, but is currently configured to use BerkeleyDB.
The conclusion of that thread was that, because BerkeleyDB is used in
local-only mode (no server, no network involved), the new license
would not be a problem. That's good, because switching database
implementations at this point would be painful.
References:
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/198525.html
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