Hi guys, as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good - or at least trim down the list of packages dependent on it as much as possible. The topic of BerkeleyDB v6 in Fedora was already discussed at this list [1], and it turned out that peaceful cooperation of multiple libdb versions in system is very problematic. As some packages cannot use newer versions, we are basically stuck with v5 - unless we get rid of it altogether or find another solution. I already started probing which packages depend on libdb and what can be done to remove that dependency. My findings are briefly documented on [2] and so far it seems that with some work it could be done. 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. Thank you very much for any help. I welcome both edits in the wiki at [2] in case of relatively simple solutions, and ideas, thoughts and explanations on this mailing list. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/197406.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jstanek/Draft_-_Removing_BerkeleyDB_from_Fedora -- Jan Stanek - Red Hat Associate Developer Engineer - Databases Team -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
