>>>>> "JC" == Jon Ciesla <limb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: JC> I can't recall at the moment where this stems from, but the JC> rationale, as I recall, was that we can never be sure if the JC> database is available at RPM install/upgrade time. It's pretty simple. Creating databases isn't generally something that an rpm can do on its own; for mysql, at least, rpm certainly won't have any way at all to get at local administrative password. And of course databases can be on remote machines, so such packages rarely have dependencies on the actual database server anyway (just the client libraries) and certainly no way to figure out where the remote server is or how to access it. Now, sqlite would be a different matter. It would still be terribly antisocial for a package to wipe out existing data on an upgrade, but creating and managing sqlite databases is something that could be done by the package (although I'd still think that's better left for runtime). - J< -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
