Florian Schnabel
2005-Dec-14 14:49 UTC
[Dovecot] Question about the dovecot debian package
am planing transition to dovecot right now ... just noticed dovecot debian package would install mysql ... it probably depens on just any database and uses ymsql by default .. but anyway why does it need one ? Florian
Florian Schnabel wrote:> just noticed dovecot debian package would install mysql ... it probably > depens on just any database and uses ymsql by default .. but anyway why > does it need one ?As far as I know dovecot does not require mysql or another database. Note that not the whole mysql DB will be installed, as I think, but only some client-libs. Perhaps they are required because dovecot is linked against them? You should ask the maintainer or file a bug against the dovecot-common package IMHO. It should not be necessary to install mysql-stuff if you do not need it. But who knows about the internal technical things... Gert
Florian Schnabel wrote:> am planing transition to dovecot right now ... > just noticed dovecot debian package would install mysql ... it probably > depens on just any database and uses ymsql by default .. but anyway why > does it need one ?It does NOT need one. However, it _can_ use one (Postgress or MySQL... and even SQLite, when I finish testing my patch:) for user details (name, password, home dir, etc). Requiring MySQL (even just the client libs) is some wrong-headedness in the packaging, though they may not see a clean alternative since I believe currently the SQL portion of Dovecot is not pluggable, but compiled in. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net