Bug 7405

Summary:	excessive database dependencies
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	drupal	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Guillaume Rousse 2012-09-08 22:04:13 CEST

No application should have a dependency againt a database server, because the server may be installed on another host. The drupal-mysql and drupal-postgresql packages should not enforce dependencies against mysql or postgresql.

Also, shipping 3 subpackages just to install a suitable database driver seems overkill. Similar applications usually just add a note in the README.urpmi file.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-09-09 15:20:09 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => oliver.bgr

Comment 1 Oliver Burger 2012-10-05 08:54:14 CEST

Removed the dependancies for the database servers themselves, but kept the sub packages requiring the php-pdo_foo packages as drupal won't work without them.

If you really don't like those sub packages, you are free to maintain drupal yourself and do whatever you want.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED