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From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@FreeBSD.org.ru>
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:21:34PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> as some of you know, I am currently maintaining the db4, db41,
> db41-nocrypto and bogofilter ports, among others.
> 
> Just symlinking things into /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.X.Y might not work
> since the library SONAME does not match then -- or can we have a file
> /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/lib/libdb.so when its SONAME is in fact
> libdb41.so.1?
> 
> Does anyone see a good way out? Suggestions, thoughts are solicited.
> 
> 
> For reference, here are the libdb "consumers" and "providers":

Also postfix/postfix-current and oops may use db3/db4/db41 ports.

I have a idea about split everyone db* port into 3 ports:
db-devel, db-doc and db-tool, because more (all?) dependences
ports do not use documentation and application from db port.

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