Why does dovecot require mysql?

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:32, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > What is supposed to happen on an FC2 system that has (and needs)
> > mysql 4.x installed, and the current dovecot update now depends
> > on mysql 3.23.x?
> 
> Very good question!  Another problem with feature creep.  If mysql 4.x
> was installed from source dovecot would not install unless mysql 3.23.x
> was installed via rpm.  But if mysql 4.x was installed via rpm I would
> expect dovecot to accept mysql 3.23.x and anything above that.  If it is
> written to look for 3.23.x specifically then you would have to strip
> dovecot off and install dovecot from source.

It wasn't a theoretical question:

I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
[deps: perl-DBD-MySQL 2.9003-4.i386]
[deps: mysql 3.23.58-9.1.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: n

What happens if I answer yes?

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