[SAMBA4] Making system ldb usable by Samba 4

[simo]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 02:05 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2007, 09:45 +1000 schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 01:35 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > Continuing our quest to eliminate the differences between standalone and
> > > samba4-included ldb...
> > 
> > > We would also not want libldb to link against libpopt, so registering
> > > the extra options should only be done when inside the command-line
> > > utility.
> > Why not?  How many systems are going to install a libldb, but could not
> > have popt?
> ldb is a database library, why should it link against a command-line
> utility library it doesn't even use? That's a bit of a principle
> objection, somewhat more practical:
> 
> The registered options are only usable to those users of libldb that are
> actually using libpopt themselve so I don't think apps (or libraries)
> that don't use popt should get the overhead of both popt and the loading
> of those popt-specific modules.
> 
> Popt itself may not be large, but the popt-specific ldb modules can very
> well be. For example, a KDE application that would be using ldb would
> load all the libraries that the popt/samba.so module links against
> (which includes a significant part of Samba).

There is also a much simpler reason, we don't want to interfere with
applications that use popt and want to use libldb or apps that don't use
it and don't want to.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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