One source, multiple packages?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Feb 10 12:42:03 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:12 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> personally I would compile twice, once enabling mysql and another time 
> pgsql, and create 2 packages. each package would install a 
> "motion-dbname" binary, and a symlink would allow access via the well 
> known name "motion". Using alternatives would allow a switch between the 
> two.

The better option would be to make the program use loadable plugins for
database support.

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