[collectd] "Redesign" of the Debian collectd package

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Stephan,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:20:59PM +0200, Stephan Maka wrote:
> Sebastian Harl wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Stephan Maka wrote:
> > > Not sure I understand this scheme; you want to include the rrdtool
> > > plugin without a dependency on librrd? How is that supposed to work?
> > Yes and no. All plugins are (and have been since 4.2.0-1) included in
> > the same package without having a strict dependency (at a package level)
> > on their individual requirements. The daemon still works if any of those
> > requirements are missing and will report an error message (without
> > aborting) at startup. The same will now apply to rrdtool as well.
> 
> Okay, I understand your reasons. It would just be nice to say: on this
> host I additionally install collectd-rrdtool, it starts writing rrd
> files out of the box and the whole dependency mountain gets cleaned away
> if I change my mind and uninstall it.

Hrm … the only way, I can think of, to implement that, would be to
introduce a new binary package for each plugin (with external
dependencies). See my previous E-mail, why I do not want to implement
that. Any other ideas how to do that would be very appreciated.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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