Subject: Re: [bug#30864] mailutils: fix TODO note and build with mariadb sql

From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:01:40 +0000

Ludovic Courtès transcribed 700 bytes:
> Hello,
> 
> ng0 <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > mailutils had this note to build it with sql.
> >
> > I picked mariadb, the attached patch builds alright.
> >
> > But:
> > Why do we want this? mariadb adds *very much* to the size of the package and its
> > dependencies.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > total: 158.8 MiB
> 
> [...]
> 
> > total: 695.8 MiB
> 
> That’s multiplied by 4.5, so I’d rather not do it, especially since it
> doesn’t contribute to a core functionality of Mailutils AFAIK.

Yep, it's not very good.

> That said, the main problem here is the size of mariadb (and mysql),
> which take 200–300 MiB alone (not the closure).  We can revisit this
> issue when we’ve made them smaller.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> Ludo’.

It's okay with me.
Do you think we should close this bug for now?
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