On 8.1.2015 14:56, Jan Staněk wrote: > 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. It seems that RPM itself could be migrated to MDB: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086784 (there were no technical objections after the last comment). Very nice benefit could be much much better performance. See MDB vs. BDB (vs. others) benchmarks: http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/ -- Petr^2 Spacek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
